Doug Smith was on his deathbed and knew the end was near. His nurse, his wife, daughter and two sons were all gathered around him. First he addressed his kids: “Bernie, I want you to take the Mayfair houses. Sybil, you take the apartments on the East End. Jamie, I want you to take the offices downtown.” Finally he turned to his wife. “Sarah, my dear, you can have all the residential buildings on the banks of the river.”
The nurse was totally blown away by all of this, and as Doug slipped away, she said, “Mrs. Smith, your husband must have been such a wonderful, hard-working man to have accumulated all that property.”
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