Dad Leaves Younger Daughter His House, Older Daughter Only Gets a Dirty Dish — Story of the Day

After a man passed away, the will he left behind pitted his two girls against each other as one received the house they grew up in while the other got a dirty dish.

John was a proud father of two daughters, Helen and Julia. They were the apple of his eyes, but because Julia looked more like his late wife, he tended to take her side more.

When Julia was born, Helen was already a teenager. In truth, John and his wife had nearly given up hope of welcoming a child when Julia came along. It made them treat her even more special.

They got her the best of everything and showered love and attention on her, making Helen, the older one who had formerly been the only recipient of all their affections, feel very neglected.

When she clocked 18, her mother passed away, leaving John to carry all the burden of taking care of the girls. It was a challenging task, and eventually, he ordered Helen to work as a dishwasher so there would be more income for them to live on.

Helen initially hated it and challenged her father on her need to do it. “Why do I have to do that? I don’t see other kids doing that, they’re all going to college,” Helen told her father one day.

“You’re 18 now Helen, you have grown and you need to learn how to be useful to other people now,” he told her.

“You mean you and Julia,” Helen said before she walked away from him that day.

They faced off like that two more times before Helen finally agreed to go to work. Her agreement was binding, which did not do anything to calm her jealousy towards Julia.

Helen saw Julia as a spoiled child, and it created a wedge between the two girls. They butted heads all the time because of Julia’s unwillingness to work, and it only got worse as they grew older.

As a teenager, Julia only wanted to party all the time while Helen got used to working to support the family. She worked a few months as a dishwasher before getting hired as a kitchen assistant and then as a cook.

During the years she worked, Helen gave up her jealousy of Julia. She’d wanted a chance to also party and live life like her...