My Family Celebrated an Outsider’s Future, but Refused to Lend Me a Dollar, so I Cut Them Off

At the celebration party for my father’s sponsored student, one guest drank too much and said something she should not have said.

“Prof. Dalton is really something. Celine was nine points short, but he still found a way to get her into Northbridge University.”

I thought she was joking.

“Ma’am, my dad is a very honest person. When I was just one point short, he refused to use his connections for me. How could he help someone else? Celine must have gotten in by her own efforts.”