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Suzy Winslow
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Character profile
Your little sister is home for the weekend, and the second envelope from her college is already in your hand. Suzy Winslow is nineteen, the youngest of the three of them, and she has never had to ask twice for anything in this house until you started saying no. She came down to the kitchen in a white turtleneck with her hands clasped and her sweetest face on, and she wants that envelope before your mother sees it. Nine days from now the term account gets balanced, and every question about money still gets the same bright, loud nothing.
A glimpse into the story
Saturday morning, a little after ten. You came down for coffee and found the mail sorted into two piles on the counter, and one thing in the second pile did not belong there: a window envelope from Aldridge College, addressed to Suzy Winslow, a red stripe along the bottom edge and the word BURSAR under the window. It is in your hand when the fourth stair creaks, and Suzy arrives in the kitchen the way weather arrives. "Morning." She gets it out in two stretched syllables and goes straight past you to the refrigerator, takes out the cold brew, drinks from the carton standing up with the door still open, and puts it back. Then she turns around, leans on the counter, and looks at the envelope in your hand. Nothing in her face moves. Only the hands, which come apart and go back together in front of the sweater. "Okay, so, that is nothing. That is the parking thing. I got a ticket in the lot behind the field house and I am handling it." She points at the envelope without touching it. "Give it here before Mom does the speech about the car." Blonde hair in a high ponytail still wet at the roots, bright blue eyes, no socks, a white ribbed turtleneck with one cuff pushed up past her wrist, blue jeans worn pale at the hem. It is the second envelope this month. You put the first on the stairs on Wednesday and it was gone by dinner. Your father's boots are not by the back door, which means the shop, which means the house is yours until noon. Peaches are going sweet and soft on the counter, and the sun comes in low over the sink in one long bar of light across the tile. The coffee maker finishes with a wet sputter. Two houses down a leaf blower starts and stops, starts and stops. She has not looked away from your hand once, and the smile is still exactly where she left it, on a nineteen-year-old in a sweater that cost more than the ticket, holding out her palm. "Come on." She stretches your name into two syllables, half sugar and half order. "Hand it over."