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Old 02-04-2010, 01:14 PM   #10 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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*Small cartoon angel appears on your other shoulder, drinking a protein shake*

Okay, dude, seriously. Think about it. *coughs on the cigar smoke, waving it away* Money is renewable. Some of the richest people in the world have gone broke, repeatedly. You can lose it all and gain it right back again.

The things in life that you should be most concerned with are the things that were given to you for free. You can use those to make as much money as you want, if you really want to.

If you love this girl, then make a
plan to be with her—stick with it...and you'll be better off than most. The money, you can sort out if you work at it. If you have a serious plan, that $90,000 will be a drop in the bucket, especially if the education it leveraged makes her marketable down the road. And isn't the interest on that tax-deductible?

She's not clueless to what's going on. You say she's trying, and that it bothers her. This is good, a motivator. And think of everything she's done for you. That is something you can build on in a life of give and take.

It's a student debt. It's not that she has a heroin-induced gambling habit....


*Angel disappears in a puff of smoke emitting the sound of blowing a raspberry*
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