CODA

[alt_evelyn]

EVELYN LONGBOTTOM finishes her Mastery in Astronomy, and then takes off to MIT to study physics. She completes her Doctorate in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley, and lands a post-doc at NASA, where she falls in love with a cute engineer who works on the Mars project. They marry after ten years of co-habitation. She keeps busy in her field, and in her small circle of professionals, she is known and respected. She doesn't make it home often, but stays current with her Guild dues, and keeps up a voluminous epistolary exchange with her parents, Terry, Kevin, Artie, Kitty, and Siz, and writes regularly with Jeremy, Linus, and Cecelia as well. Kevin comes out to live with her and her partner for a year after he finishes school, and visits them for two weeks every year. When Terry is in his travelling stage, he'll occasionally crash on their couch. She is the proud Maid of Honor at Katrina Bundy and Artemus Ross's wedding, and is the equally proud godmother of their child (and auntie to Luna and Terry's children as well). She sends all three children ridiculously large shipments of books regularly. She can't make it back to England every May, but she wears a corsage of paperwhites on Neville's birthday and Remembrance Day, and lights a candle in the window every Christmas.