Bette: No, I guess not. Okay. Let’s discuss that first. What is it we would like to do?

Tina: Honestly? I would like for her to have the same opportunity we are providing Angie to obtain her education and transition into adulthood. The fortunate part about it is that she has a full scholarship through medical school for her tuition and books plus some for room and board. For the most part, most of her expenses are covered. The balance of her expenses are the additional for room and board, clothes, personal services, her social life and transportation.

Bette: Well, that is what I would like to do also. But what if we do this and, in a year, or so, Angie and Suzanne have some kind of falling out where they do not want to be friends or even acquaintances?  What then?  I wouldn’t want to stop our support simply because she and Angie were no longer on friendly terms.

Tina: No, I wouldn’t want to discontinue our support unless she was booted out of school for failure to make the grades or some law violation.

Bette: T?  Didn’t Suzanne say that she was about to go to the financial aid office to try and find out her options?

Tina:  Yeah, why?

Bette:  What if there is a way for us to provide a private scholarship to Suzanne in addition to her normal scholarship through the school so that neither Suzanne or Angie ever knows its source? So regardless of the relationship between the two, as long as she is on her other scholarship, she gets this additional money for other purposes?

Tina:  You are thinking about another Melvin Porter scheme, aren’t you?

Bette (grinning from ear to ear):  Yeah, something like that. But I won’t go to the trouble of setting up a whole new corporation. We set something up with the financial aid department at Yale.  We have money deposited into Yale’s depository account, they transfer money on a monthly basis into Suzanne’s bank account and she uses it as she needs. Make it some kind of loan. Where by if she obtains her medical education and once she receives a license to practice medicine within the US, she would repay the loan in 120 monthly installments at some ridiculously low interest rate. But if she receives her entire medical education from Yale, then 50% of the loan is forgiven upon graduation. And maybe the other 50% gets forgiven if she serves in the medical profession in an underserved field or community within the America for a period of 5 years.