Dear Diary,

Training the tributes for their interviews is so much easier than
What I thought!
Susan is very well mannered so I really just need to have her practice walking "on stage" and answering questions Caesar would probably ask.
Quince on the other hand is rather rambunctious and doesn't seem to ever sit still.
Haymitch and I only have a couple more days before the hunger games starts.
I might as well be training them by myself!
Haymitch is always either passed out drunk or currently drinking.
Last night I woke up to a loud crash in the living room.
I ran in while putting my robe on and of course I find him asleep on the step down.
I guess he was trying to stumble to the kitchen for another drink since his hands were empty.
I wish he would at least try to sober up long enough to help Susan and Quince.
They need all the help they can get. Quince is strong from working with his younger brother and Susan is small and dainty like a china doll. Something you put up some place safe so that no one can reach her.
Quince says his mother and father both work in the coal mines.
He has one sibling Rory Hawthorne who is a year younger than him.
Susan is an only child and lives with her aunt in the town square.
Her aunt is a seamstress for everyone who can afford it.
Susan has the most beautiful blonde hair with large curls.
It's blonder than mine! Well my real hair at least.
When Haymitch looks at her, he gets this painful look in his eyes.
Does she remind him of his sister he lost?
He talked about his sister before his hunger games that night on the roof.
But after that he acted as if he doesn't have a sister. Like she never existed.
Love,

Effie

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FYI: Quince is in fact Gale's uncle in case you were a little confused.
I read someone's oneshot years ago about Haymitch having a sister who lived in the apothecary shop with her aunt and uncle, and that's why Haymitch is "like a dad" to katniss.
I loved the idea so much that I try to add it in my FanFics when I can.

-SteggyInTheTARDIS