At my grandfather’s funeral, my cousins received his yacht, his penthouse, and his company worth 27 million dollars. I received a small, old envelope. Laughter broke out as I opened it. Inside there was only a plane ticket to Rome

On the day my cousins became millionaires, I walked out of my grandfather’s funeral with a single crumpled envelope in my pocket and the sound of their laughter stuck to my skin like cold rain.   My name is Nathan Whitmore, and this is the story of how the smallest inheritance in the room turned…