the size of a small suitcase , the purse is packed : barrettes ; a bottle of sweet-on-him perfume ; a tower records receipt with some boys phone number written on the back ; kleenex in floral prints ; a half eaten donut from this morning ; a letter from her school counselor , asking to meet with her parents ; root beer and choco-berry and cherry favored lip glosses ; a small pearson mason english boar bristle hairbrush that she stole from andersons drugstore ; a large plastic brush with missing bristles ; aspirin ; a broken purple swatch ; a grape blow pop ; a lucky rabbits foot her father gave her for her tenth birthday ; two make-up compacts , the mirror cracked in both ; a small , leather bound photo album ; and , at the bottom , a scattering of skittles and pennies and pennies and pennies .