Harriet: Oh, my dear Elizabeth, you look just like you did some forty years ago. I would know that face anywhere. And Tina, I understand that you and Elizabeth are married and have children of your own?

Tina:  Yes, Miss Myers. Bette and I are celebrating our eleventh wedding anniversary next week and we have been together for the most part for twenty-five years now. We have two children – Angie who is at Yale and Daniel who is in the sixth grade.

Harriet:  I am sure, that had Melvin lived that he would have loved knowing your two children as well as you. Family was very important to Melvin. Now are you in touch with Catherine?

Bette:  Yes, we are. Kit as we know her, is married to Sonny Benson and lives in Los Angeles. Kit has been in restaurant business for the past 20 years or so and she is retiring this year. And Sonny is in the entertainment business and he is retiring also. Sonny is the perfect man for Kit. He is a kind and gentle soul. They have been married for some ten years now. I wish that they had met earlier in their lives, they would have had that many more years of happiness.

Harriet:  And what about your other sister?  Maxine’s other child?

Bette:  Maxine goes by the name Mary Southerland these days and her daughter is Paris Southerland. She is getting married to Jeanette Miller just after Thanksgiving. Paris a curator and director of an art gallery in Los Angeles and Jeanette is a musician and music instructor for special programs in the Los Angles school system.

Harriet:  Melvin said that you were in the arts.  So, your sister is as well?

Bette:  Yes, possibly an inherited thing.  I think Melvin was a great connoisseur of fine arts as well. He loved going to museums and seeing art shows.  I think that is where he met my mother.

Harriet:  Yes, now please call me Harriet. So, you have come to Philadelphia in search of some specific questions?

Bette:  Yes, we have. The final provisions of my father’s will have just been executed and all the assets are now distributed in accordance with his final wishes. We have talked with Gabriel Scott and we have reviewed all the documents pertinent to the matter of his will yesterday. First, let me say that is my intention and every member of my family not to disturb the wishes expressed by the Last Will and Testament of Melvin William Porter. We are in agreement that every bequest be honored and distributed to the beneficiaries as written.  What we are in search of, is when did he know that Maxine Brown Porter was not dead but living under an alias and when did he find out he had another child besides Kit and I? It is obvious that he has known for years as his will was more than ten years old when it was executed. Kit and I are both thrilled that Paris has been provided for in the will. And I want to assure you that we have been more than confident that she is our sister. However, the firm of Westcott and Porter insisted that a DNA test be performed and it too confirmed that she is my full sister and the half-sister to Kit. The same DNA test confirmed that Mary Southerland is Maxine Brown Porter.