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=Eungi Choi= After first term finals, Sue finds herself at the top of her medical school class. Her life seemed absolutely perfect; a rich, high-status family to support her financial needs, a high school background of being the top of her class throughout the entire four years, and having her life set out in the most perfect way. Her classmates would glare at her with squinty-eyes, their mouths whispering animatedly. ‘Oh look, the perfect girl! She has such a perfect life! She must be so happy with herself!’

It’s true that she didn’t suffer from any problems. It’s true that her life was set on the path of becoming a chairman of a hospital. But it was wrong that she had a perfect life, because everything wasn’t what she decided.

Even in her childhood, her parents had always pushed her into getting a doctor’s degree. Being naive as she was, she grew up to become her parent’s puppets, doing whatever they desired and losing her own identity. She even had to sacrifice her dream of becoming an artist for her parent’s sake. Although she put on a smile, her eyes seemed clouded. With her only enjoyment in life gone, she isolated herself, from her friends, and even from her family. Sue lived a life she didn’t wish for, but she never complained. Who knows what was going on in her head?

=Alice Ahn= After first term finals, Sue finds herself at the top of her medical school class. Sue is proud of her-self and enjoys the respect from others; she feels like everything is evolving around her. Sue thinks that to maintain the respect and the attention means that she needs to keep on studying hard and get the highest grade from her grade. Sue studies harder and harder every year, ending up having no true friend that she can actually talk with. Sue feels terrible for she cannot tell anyone what she thinks inside, but she knows that it is too late to go back and to blowing off all the attention just for a true friend is a waste so she just continues to study.

Many years have passed and Sue became a well-known doctor in the state. The past years has changed Sue completely; she is not the Sue whom people knew in the past. Now Sue is cold, harsh, depressing, and sad; she doesn’t have a boyfriend or a single friend that she can talk to. All the doctors in the hospital is a rival in her life and all the patients coming to the hospital is the number one person that Sue needs to be in her best behavior. When her shift ends, Sue heads to the restaurant she always goes to. Sue sits at the corner of the restaurant, like she always does, and stares outside of the window. She sees a couple passing by and a kid and a mother walking hand-in-hand. Sue thinks about her mother and calls her.

“We are sorry. The line is busy right now. If you call again later on…”

Sue hung the phone and waits until her food arrives. What has happen to her? All she wanted was to succeed in her life, and getting high grades was the short cut to success, that was what she was taught, and that was the only fact that she knew. What has made her life so miserable? Sue finished her dinner and leaves the restaurant. She starts walking to her house without anything in mind. She enters her house. The cold chilly air could be felt and she takes off her high heels and heads to the bathroom. After washing her face she stares at the foggy mirror. White face, filled with sadness and sorrow. Tears start to flow from her eyes to her chin and she cannot do a thing about it. She just cries, holding onto the bathroom sink for ten minutes.

Sue changes to her nightgowns and heads to the bed, the last place in the world where she can find comfort. She sits and starts reading the documents about the new research going on but soon puts aside. She cannot focus on the reading and she is not willing to read the whole document today. Sue puts the documents and her glasses on the bedroom table, turns off the lamp, and lies down on the bed. Right now, the only thing she wants is to go to sleep. Sue cannot sleep. She sits on her bed, turns on the lamp and opens the drawer, and picks up a container full of white pills; it is the sleeping pills. She takes three of them, turns off the lamp and tries to sleep and get rid of her harsh life. As she closes her eyes, a tear is dropped from the eye. What has made Sue’s life like this? Is there no hope at all? Full of questions, Sue goes to sleep as she does, fearing what will happen tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.


 * Kenny Kim - Story 1**

After first term finals, Sue finds herself at the top of her medical school class. As it is the end of finals, she hosts a party at her parents house. All are invited, and all sorts of people arrive. The house is thronged with college frat boys, sorority girls as well as the druggies. Sue was never really a sorority type, and her friends were away to Switzerland with their parents. Sue over the party slowly drifted towards the druggies and befriends them. She forgets about grades, becomes hooked on crystal meth and at the end of the 2nd term, she is scraping at the bottom of her colleagues. Professors worry, her old friends deserted her, and her parents are ashamed of having such a daughter. Sue realizes she has no future left for her.

This was 5 years ago. Sue is no longer Sue. She has changed her name to Sparkles and works as a part-time waitress/prostitute. All thoughts of higher education has dissolved, and her hopes and dreams are encased in the shriveling embodiment of despair. She is running out of drug money, and when she tries to plead for funds, her parents hang up immediately.

Lost in confusion, she tries to meet with her old friends, friends that once accepted her. She cycled out into the woods to find some sort of consolation in being in one with nature. This did not work for her. Sue promptly took out a hand grenade she found from the military surplus store downtown, took out the pin, and held it in her mouth. She was blown to fragments and her remains were never found again. Parents, friends, former colleagues never mentioned her name again.