Susie was the youngest in her family. She had warm brown eyes, a sunny smile, heavy long black hair, and big ideas. She followed her sisters as they helped their mother. She swept the wooden floor clean, down to the cracks, with a stick broom that was as tall as she was. She learned how to plant corn and beans and melons, and how to harvest them when the honking geese swept southward across the sky. She learned how to mix pemmican, a food made of meat and fat, and she stood on tiptoe to taste the sweet golden pies her mother made out of squash.
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