Sugar hides in the restaurant bathroom while attempting to coordinate plumbing repairs over the phone. She reflects on the grief of losing her brother Mikey and her complicated, newfound desire to help her other brother run the family business despite the chaos.
SUGAR: I mean I don’t even really know. Mikey died and I just never wanted to be in this place at all but then my other brother started running the place and now it’s like I just want to be here all the time and is that even healthy? But then I feel like I actually could be good at this, you know? And as adults we never try new things, because it becomes so easy to just do the same exact thing with the same exact people... and who doesn’t want easy? Who doesn’t want to just be okay--
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