§4.7Talking With the Children

The hardest conversation in succession is not with the hawker – it is with the children who chose other lives and feel the weight of that choice every Sunday dinner. This plan changes the material facts before the conversation begins: the children hold a 90-day right of first refusal, a royalty on their parent's name for ten years (which the successor may buy out early, at a published price), and the private family archive. The Community Liaison Officer's message is not reassurance; it is an offer: your parent's name earns for your family, whether or not any of you ever holds the wok.