Abandonment in "Sula"

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Two days later [Eva] left all her children with Mrs. Suggs, saying she would be back the next day.
Eighteen months later she swept down from a wagon with two crutches, a new black pocketbook, and one leg. First she reclaimed her children, next she gave the surprised Mrs. Suggs a ten-dollar bill, later she started building a house on Carpenter's Road, sixty feet from BoyBoy's one-room cabin, which she rented out.

Questions:
1) Why is Eva gone for 18 months? What is she doing for a year and a half?

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