She was a secretary, but left $9 million in inheritance.

She was thought to be a simple office employee. Yet, behind her apparent banality, Sylvia Bloom led a double life as an anonymous millionaire. Born in Brooklyn in 1919, she worked for more than 67 years in the same law firm, observing in silence the investments of her bosses. What she saw, she applied it. With wisdom. And a lot of patience. Her story, worthy of a film, moved America: how did this woman, daughter of immigrants and living in a mod…