The Week contest: Missed inheritance

This week's question: A young English earl has sued his parents for the "trauma" of having not inherited his family’s 6,000-acre, $105 million estate on his 30th birthday. If this British noble were to write a memoir detailing his mistreatment in a bid for public sympathy, what should he title it?

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THE WINNER: "The Lord Hath Forsaken Me"

Ronald Pye, Cape Coral, Florida 

SECOND PLACE: "No Country Estate for Young Men"

Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas

THIRD PLACE: "The Marquis de Sad"

George Pendergast, Weston, Massachusetts

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Heir Triggered"

Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts

"Rich Dad, Poor Me"

Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, California

 "Even Millennial Earls Don't Own a House"

Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia

"Earl, Interrupted"

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"Are We Heir Yet?"

Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania

"My Mater and Pater Were Haters"

Pam Rafford, Brooklyn, New York

"From the Earl of Sandwich to the Earl of Nothingburger"

Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania

"Inherit (Only) the Wind"

Allison Wedell and Pete Zimmer, Saint Paul, Minnesota

"Entitled to be Entitled"

James L. Mobley, Dexter, Michigan

"Error Apparent"

Garth Anderson, Bedford Hills, New York

"Grouse of Lords"

Rob Huffman, Fredericksburg, Virginia