A credit was omitted from the photo of Brandy Britton's home that appeared on the front of the May 21 Style section. The photo was taken by staff photographer Mark Gail.
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The girl, now a 19-year-old student at the University of Maryland at College Park, was supposed to have been in Colorado visiting her 21-year-old brother.
"I gave her a ticket," Victoria Britton says. "But I haven't heard from her."
A pause, then, "Oh, those poor kids."
She asks about Britton's job. She says, "I" -- pause -- "thought she was doing a research job." Then, "Yes. She's had financial trouble for several years." Then, "Ah, brother." Then, "There is a lot. . . . She's just got some other problems that have gone on for years."
She says goodbye. She has to call her grandchildren.
But before hanging up, she adds one more thing about her daughter: "She's very supportive of women, and very sympathetic to women who have to do -- "
She doesn't finish the sentence.
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The cul-de-sac is cold and dark.
Britton has agreed to an interview, but at the appointed time, nobody is home but a big black dog, who barks and hurls itself against the leaded glass doors. There is no doorbell, just a scraggle of wires poking outside the doorframe.
Then she calls. She's running late, wants to meet at Starbucks. She orders a grande white mocha Frappuccino light with whipped cream and an extra shot of espresso, plus an espresso brownie -- at 9:35 at night.
Britton does not dress for practicality. Tonight, despite the chill, she wears high-heel wedge sandals and thin brown pants that flare when she walks. She's got bangs and long, loose ringlets in her hair, and her lips glimmer with a petal-pink gloss that's very Bobbi Brown -- very wedding-day pale.
