Property located at 847 Jurist Circuit, Satellite City, Community Noalpin.
Owner: Beatatric Sakoro Mendoza, widow of Torres.
My name.
Only my name.
When we bought the house, the notary explained that since I put down the full down payment, it was safest to put everything in my name first.
“You can do the transfer whenever you want later, ma’am,” he said. “But this way, you’re protected if anything happens.”
Daniel agreed.
“It’s better this way, Mom. Safer for you.”
And then we never did the transfer.
He’d ask about it occasionally in the first few months.
“We need to go to the notary, Mom, to change the deeds.”
But there was always something more urgent.
We always put it off until he stopped asking.
And I consciously or unconsciously never reminded him.
Now I understood why.
Some part of me—the part that survived forty-two years of marriage, that raised a son alone while David worked twelve hours a day—that part knew I needed protection.
