It requires a named applicant who is not the beneficiary and who is not related to the beneficiary, a statement of the circumstances, a statement of the amount and what it is for, and the signatures of two members.

Officer Cooper — the younger one, the one who had stood on my porch and said the line about what my son had set in motion, and who I later found out had gone home that morning and felt wretched about the whole thing — filled it in.

It went to the association’s board on the eleventh of November.

The board asked two questions.

Whether the beneficiary was related to any serving officer, which Maya is and Julian is not, and which is why the application was made for Julian and not for the Lin family.