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I had ceased trembling by the time the attorney responded. Not because I was at ease. Because I had at last managed to get something colder into my hands. Elena Rivera is my name.<\/p>\n<p>After using the account my late husband left for our son to park a $60,000 Sapphire-Blue sports car in my parents\u2019 driveway, my sister smirked and said, \u201cYou\u2019re Really Doing All This Over a Car?\u201d I didn\u2019t argue, put my lawyer on speaker, walked past my parents, picked up my little boy, and took one last look at that car because the folder waiting downtown was about to reveal that this was never just about a car. I had ceased trembling by the time the attorney responded. Not because I was at ease. Because I had at last managed to get something colder into my hands. Elena Rivera is my name. The life insurance that my husband Marcus left behind was put in a different account for our four-year-old son, Noah, when he failed to return home three years prior. 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