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@dawnslept
Bio - Verses - Rules
Hello my fine friends! I’m Galia, I’m 22, and I run this small corner of the interwebs. Please make sure you read my Bio, Verses, and Rules before interacting but just to reiterate a couple over points
Please do not interact or follow if you’re under the age of 18
Please do not interact if you believe doxxing to be an appropriate reaction to anything. It hurts real people in real life and is in fact illegal.
“ how do you know when somebody likes you? ” (from Sophia)
Carol blinks in surprise, looking up from the patch of tomatoes she was weeding. She pushes her hair out of her face and sits back on her heels. “Well uh, it really depends on the person. Ezekiel was pretty forth coming with me, he told me what he wanted and uh what he was up to but some people are more subtle.” She pulls her gloves off and frowns at her daughter.
She should’ve expected this, Sophia was 15, of course she was interested in boys, of course boys were interested in here. Still it seemed like just yesterday her daughter was turning 12 at the farm, blowing out a few spare candles Glenn and Maggie found in town. How was she old enough to be worrying about boys? And what boys were worrying about her? God she was not ready for this, where was the little girl who woke her with nightmares and cuddled up to her in the prison? Henry cuddled up to her sometimes, but he was more likely to pick Ezekiel for comfort, besides it wasn’t really the same.
“So are we talking about Carl?”
murkyhazed:
@dawnslept ♡ → lori grimes & carol peletier.
❝ i’m fine i just… HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK. ❞
Carol knew a lie when she saw one, hell she’d told that particular lie as recently as last week. “I saw Shane leaving.” She says quietly. “Are you sure you’re okay?”
RP Symbol Prompts: Long and Random Edition
Send in a symbol for my muse. Send it with a <- to reverse the prompt.
💀-for my muse to hear that your muse has fallen ill
☠️- for our muses to enter a zone where nothing lives (radiation, post-apocolypse, etc.)
👽- for your muse to hear my muse has been captured by aliens.
🤖- for my muse to be turned into a robot
👰/🤵- for your muse to see my muse on their wedding day
💋- for my muse to kiss your muse somewhere (specify where)
💘-for my muse to get shot by Cupid and fall in love with yours
💔-for heartbreak for one of our muses or between them
💞-for a thread of unrequited love between our muses
💖- for your muse to ask mine out
💌- to receive a lovely letter from my muse
💣- to be in a hostage situation with a bomb with my muse
💥- to be trapped in an explosion and my muse is looking for yours
🐾-for one of our muses to be hunted by someone/something
🐕- for our muses to pick out an animal together
🥀-for a twisted fairytale based starter (specify if needed)
🌹-to receive flowers from my muse
🏺-to have a Greek/Roman gods au based starter
🔪-to attack my muse
🍷-to give my muse poison
⌛-for my muse to run out of time while in danger
🌠-for my muse to watch the stars with yours
🔥-for our muses to sit next to a fire
🎈-for one of our muses to be compelled to reveal their deepest fear (specify who)
🔇- for my muse to fall mute
🎤-for my muse to sing a song to your muse
🎶- for our muses to sing a duet (specify song)
📱-to receive a text from my muse
☎️-for your muse to receive a ranson call from my muse’s kidnapper
📞-for my muse to hang up on your muse in the middle of a call
🎥-to watch a memory of my muse’s
🕯️-to be lost in the woods with my muse with only a little candle to guide you
📜-to find a letter from my muse telling you their last goodbye’s before they go do something reckless
📝-to recieve a cute note from my muse about what they like about your muse
🏹- to aim a bow and arrow at my muse
🗡️-to stab my muse with a dagger
⚔️- to clash swords with my muse
🔑- for your muse to recieve an extra key to my muse’s home
🗝️- for your muse to find a key to the door that always remain locked in my muse’s house
🛡️-for my muse to shield your muse from something
⚖️- for your muse to decide whether my muse is guilty or not
⚗️-for a scenario where my muse has been captured and being experimented on
💉-to force my muse to inject an unknown substance into their veins in front of your muse
⛓️-for our muses to be kidnapped together
🔗- for my muse to be kidnapped
⚰️-to find out that my muse has died
🚬- to find my muse outside smoking
💊-to force my muse to take an unknown pill
Tell my muse a NSFW rumor you’ve heard about them.
Send me forbidden thoughts your muse has about mine.
Requested by anonymous
Send “That little pink plus sign is so unholy.” for my muse to find out that yours is unexpectedly pregnant.
Add “+ reverse” to the prompt for the opposite.
Weekend Activity
So I have a bit of an insane weekend I have another exam, and I’m working noon-8pm all weekend in addition to having a metric fuck ton of school work, so I doubt I’ll be around very much. If you want to chat on discord just hit me up I’m doginthecorner#9049
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I don’t know what to do here. This is a mess.
Morally speaking, this is a putrid, disgusting bowl of ethical soup.
We don’t know what it is, how long it will last, or what caused it.
The chaos happened here.
That was my first time as a fashion “don’t,” and I did not care for it.
I think it’s time to make me good, partner. How do we do it ?
Oh, great ! So you’ve decided to help me ?
On that question, I honestly think I was just put here by mistake.
He’s just wrong about my overall “quality” level.
Please, help me, man. I swear I am worth it.
Tell me one fact that you know about me.
Trick question. You didn’t !
Because you are constantly talking about yourself.
You are the most self-obsessed person I have ever met.
You’re too selfish to ever be a good person.
Look, the only thing that you are concerned with is your own happiness.
Everyone here believes in my integrity 100%, right, guys ?
Let it wash over you, ________. This is what integrity looks like.
I can’t believe all these people are passing on flying to pick up garbage all day.
Have fun, nerds.
See, I must have made a mistake somewhere. And it led to all this chaos.
The truth is, I… I’m just miserable.
Oh, no. Powerful people do not handle failure well.
________, could be having a total meltdown.
You’re going to keep me on my toes, aren’t you ?
And the answer is never. You’re never going to stop.
Well, I have had a pretty full day of being unselfish.
Most great philosophers would say that helping you is pointless, that you can’t try to be good, especially when your motivations are obviously corrupt.
Yeah, but what do most great philosophers know ?
The more you practice, the more you improve.
Well, I’ve narrowed it down to two possibilities, yes and no.
Just hit me up when you’re done weighing my life in your hands.
I’ll just keep doing what I do best: being super considerate and selfless.
Guess the only place I’ll be driving is through the giant loophole in the system I accidentally discovered.
Look, I appreciate you trying to cheer me up. I really do, but you don’t understand.
It was my chance to prove myself, and now I’ve blown it.
You know, sometimes a flaw can make something even more beautiful.
That’s it, I just don’t want you to say anything.
We could have literally been flying, and all you wanted to do was talk about morals.
You’re on your own.
I don’t know what’s happening to me.
I mean, it’s my duty to be calm and in control and I’m falling apart.
No, ________, you are a paragon of fortitude. You’re a mountain of strength.
Grace us with your vocalize wisdom. Please, I am begging you.
The strength is inside me. It’s been there all along.
No, of course, I can overcome any obstacle.
Maybe I should try to be silent, too.
Oh ! That was wonderful ! So cleansing.
It sucks that I can’t do it more often.
If you blow us off, you are banned from Thursday night drinks forever.
You’re doing this because you feel bad.
I felt bad about what I did. It was a weird feeling. Not used to it. Didn’t love it.
Well, feeling remorse about being wrong isn’t as good as just doing something right.
Look, I think you are capable of change. And I will help you try.
Okay, I won’t let you down starting now.
________, I know what you did.
Cool. Uh, just FYI, I’m a very loud snorer.
I like to drip dry in the nude, so eyes to yourself, perv.
You get to avoid eternal damnation.
That’s not a present. That’s just common decency.
insecurity .
“ i don’t… know ”
“ tell me, how am i supposed to know?!”
“ i — i called but… there was no response, so i don’t know… ”
“ what am i supposed to feel? ”
“ is this normal? ”
“ i don’t feel — normal . ”
“ how do you know when somebody likes you? ”
“ how do you know when somebody hates you? ”
“ it feels so right… but so wrong at the same time. ”
“ there’s just this feeling in my gut. ”
“ i don’t — think i should… ”
“ this isn’t right — is it ? ”
“ can you help me? ”
“ please , help me understand ? ”
“ do you think i’m pretty? ”
“ do you think i look good? ”
“ is there something… wrong with me? ”
“ i just can’t read him/her/them , i never know what to do. ”
“ did i do something wrong? ”
“ i told him/her/them something last night, but… i’m not sure if it was the right thing to do.”
“ how do you know it’s the wrong/right thing to do ? ”
“ tell me i have nothing to worry about. ”
“ i know you weren’t at ( place ) yesterday, so where were you — ”
“ how come you kept leaving me on read? you know i can see that, right?”
“ he/she/they have changed. ”
“ it feels like everything is falling apart. ”
An Idiot Abroad Book Quotes Sentence Starters
Quotes from the book “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”.
Feel free to change pronouns or restructure sentences as needed.
“He is — I don’t know the politically correct term — a moron.”
“If it wasn’t for his girlfriend, he wouldn’t do anything.”
“I want him to hate it. I want him to hate every minute of it for my own amusement.”
“This is one of the funniest, most expensive practical jokes I’ve ever done. And it’s gonna be great.”
“Why do you tell me these things?”
“Hey, [Name], I’ve got you a lovely gift.”
“Will you stop going on about me being dead!”
“I keep it in my bum bag.”
“You don’t just turn down hospitality like that, not when you’re in another country.”
“If someone gives you a bed for the night, you take it, my friend.”
“If your aunt invited me to sleep with her, I’d be over there in a flash.”
“It’s just a game of cards. You haven’t got to go out partying.”
“Ain’t that a gay term?”
“I wouldn’t be insulted if this is where you sleep.“
“It’s gonna be the same as this, isn’t it? They all look the same.”
“You were ill, so I can’t have a go at you.”
“I want you to have a bit of goodness in your life for a change.”
“Do I get an explanation of what it’s like, or do you want it to be a surprise?”
“What makes you think I will be happier in this other place?”
“Just one hurdle — to get over there it’s an eight-hour overnight bus ride.”
“It’s not a holiday!”
“Why were you covered in paint?”
“But this sounds like fun. People invited you into their lives. Why wouldn’t that be interesting?”
“You’re not good at empathy.”
“This is an extraordinary opportunity.”
“You’ve got to be out of your comfort zone. That is the very nature of what you are doing.”
“It is a fascinating, giant world out there. You’ve got to experiment and see things.”
“You are not a tiny little animal that needs to be nurtured — you’re a fully-grown man who can look after himself. You’re going to be fine.”
“What do you mean ‘get involved’?”
“It could just be an incredibly violent chicken.”
“I’m not bothered about it being on the floor. That isn’t a problem. It’s just a bit of soil. I can eat that.”
“Sometimes they find gold in this area.”
“Is it going to kill me?”
“I didn’t think you’d be a dog lover, really.”
“Everybody’s got a gun.”
“Why did you have a bag over your head?”
“I don’t know if you could annoy him. I imagine that even if it annoyed him he’d forgive you.”
“What does the ‘H’ stand for? People always say “Jesus H. Christ”. What’s his middle name?”
“They don’t like me, period.”
“Can’t you give them some better news than “There’s a holocaust coming”?”
“I was going to say taste it, to see how salty it is — but don’t.”
“It’s the worst animal you can sit on, innit? It’s got a lump in it.”
“What? We’re going the whole way on camel?”
“Put some clothes on and do some fucking work.”
“You like staying in caves and all that, so you’re staying in a cave tonight.”
“You could learn a lot about yourself, you know, stripping away all of the creature comforts that you’re used to.”
“I like looking at them, but I don’t want to sleep with them.”
“Oh dear, you’ve been insulting local people by not engaging with their customs again.”
“Just because you live in a cave, you’re not a caveman.”
“Are you just saying that? Are you being honest with me?”
“I’m not sure I know the real you anymore.”
the walking dead starters ( s7ep11.)
!! SPOILER !! ALERT !! FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T WATCHED THE EPISODE YET.
“ please. please don’t.”
“ please, god, no.”
“ i hate this. please!”
“ welcome home, haircut.”
“ there’s more at the library. a lot more.”
“ you… you have a library?”
“ s/he escaped?”
“ you know where s/he is?”
“ no. i’d tell you if i did.”
“ th-this’ll be satisfactory.”
“ you hungry?”
“ i’ll get you something. what do you want?”
“ what do i want?”
“ anything? really, anything i want?”
“ sure, whatever.”
“ dude, yes, you can have anything. what do you want?”
“ can i have lobster?”
“ no, you can’t have lobster.”
“ what the hell do you think this is?”
“ do you have canned pasta and tomato sauce?”
“ you want orange-y or red?”
“ i like pickles.”
“ number 42 is a coding system for persons here?”
“ okay, i’ll be back in ten.
“ enjoy your new place.”
“ good mornin’ sunshine.”
“ is it just as cozy as you remember?”
“ you spent a long time at the wrong side of the door.”
“ so let’s talk about now.”
“ you know anything about that, ___?”
“ i gotta tell you, that is one hell of a coincidence.”
“ was it you?”
“ did it work the other way around? you were supposed to break him/her. did s/he break you?”
“ i mean, let’s face it. you’ve got some pretty legitimate grievances.”
“ you change your stripes on me, ___?”
“ you startin’ to see things different?”
“ after all this… before and after… hell, after everything… who are you, ___?”
“so, do you think you know where ___ went?”
“ bring him/her back. sort it out.”
“ stitch him/her up. fix what you can fix.”
“ you don’t think s/he did it?”
“ you think s/he did?”
“ you were just beaten and thrown in a cell. unfairly, if you ask me.”
“ i like to think that i do.”
“ that’s exactly the kind of person who really isn’t…. expected to be around anymore.”
“ just trying to help.”
“ barber. might be able to kill that thing on your head.”
“ you’re one of us now, not them.”
“ they eat shit, we eat good.”
“ must be your lucky day, ___.”
“ are these homemade?”
“ that’s some good diy stuff there.”
“ no – no thank you.”
“ you want something, you take it, ___.”
“ there s/he is! wo/man of the hour!”
“ come on over here, big fella.”
“ don’t be rude asshole. say hello.”
“ … h-h-hello.”
“ you got a name, asshole?”
“ you see this right here? you might have to get real close.”
“ now, under normal circumstances, i’d be showing you that real close over and over again.”
“ but, see, all i really want to know is if you are a smarty-pants.”
“ you know things?”
“ answer the question.”
“ i- i am indeed a smarty-pants.”
“ even though my memory is not considered eidetic, i don’t skim and i don’t scrimp.”
“ if knowledge is dropped, i do indeed pick it up.”
“ oh, you really are just some asshole.”
“ n-no, i’m not.”
“ fire, with uh… you know… fire.”
“ uh, huh. all right, then, dr. smarty-pants. you ought to be able to crack this without breaking a sweat.”
“ how do we keep them on their feet?”
“ you already possess the means to resolve your issue.”
“ god damn! if that ain’t the coolest thing i’ve ever heard in my life!”
“ not only is that practical, it is just bad-ass!”
“ look at you, dr. smarty-pants.”
“ oh, their loss, our gain.”
“ i feel like i need to give you some kind of signing bonus here.”
“ uh, w- well, i wa- i was gifted these pickles.”
“ now, i don’t think i have to worry about this, but who knows how truly smart you are?”
“ that is a grave no-no.”
“ i wouldn’t know anything about that.”
“ what does dr. smarty-pants say to his/her new bestest friend in the whole wide world?”
“ thank you. fully, completely, sincerely, seriously: thank you.”
“ why don’t you go have some fun?”
“ what the hell am i even looking at?”
“ maybe you should take it easy, ___?”
“ maybe i shouldn’t.”
“ uh, we could play something else. warlords? it’s four players and quite the hoot.”
“ whatever you want. this is your night.”
“ do you want a massage?”
“ while i appreciate the gesture, and your commitment to your assigned objective, i am fully aware that you are not here this evening of your own volition.”
“ video games are all about me showing you a fun time.”
“ would you care for more microwave popcorn?”
“ hey, just because this was ___’s idea doesn’t mean that i don’t want to be here.”
“ i’d be down with just having an intelligent conversation.”
“ well… i suppose a conversation would be acceptable under the current circumstance.”
“ what would you like to talk about?”
“ i could talk about that shit all night.”
“ in all likelihood, even if i could, it would probably escape your comprehension.”
“ did s/he just insult us?”
“ it was not a dis, it was simply a statement of fact.”
“ my intelligence has been objectively measured.”
“ so, what, are you one of those guys who can make a bomb out of bleach and a toothpick or something?”
“ serious as sepsis.”
“ so stupid.”
“ i’m hoping to illustrate the opposite.”
“ did you just make helium out of toilet stuff?”
“ it’s cool. we’re good.”
“ hey, relax. you’re one of us.”
“ can you please just show me some good shit?”
“ i’m gonna light this candle.”
“ no, i mean, i’m gonna light this candle.”
“ i was given to understand that last night’s shinny was supposed to be a singular incident.”
“ i need your help.”
“ you aren’t afforded any… mental-health services?”
“ that would be wildly irresponsible.”
“ we’ll handle that part.”
“ look, i know that this is crazy, and that you barely know me.”
“ i can tell that you are a good person. there’s not many of those left.”
“ truth of the matter is i’m not good. i’m not lawful, neutral or chaotic, none of the above.”
“ are you saying you can’t do it?”
“ lack of ability is not the problem here.”
“ you are good, ___. you have to be.”
“ you kidding?”
“ hey, the line’s a line. what, they don’t have ’em where you come from?”
“ you don’t know how they work?”
“ which means you report directly to my ass.”
“ i didn’t know. we just – we get so many new faces, i didn’t…”
“ i don’t even know what you call this. i’m gonna call it a gremblygunk.”
“ where is s/he?”
“ i killed her/him.”
“ s/he ran away from me right into a mess of dead ones so, i, uh… made it quick.”
“ it still hurts.”
“ feels better with a bandage.”
“ i wasn’t talking about that.”
“ oh, we’ve all done things.”
“ before we got here. before we understood, we were cowards about it.”
“ we don’t- we don’t get to have big hearts. remember that.”
“ wh- what is this?”
“ you are gonna want to pay close attention to this.”
“ i – i didn’t do anything.”
“ i found this little souvenir tucked away in your desk.”
“ i don- i don’t know what that is.”
“ you… left the door open and let my puppy out.”
“ that is some weaselly shit right there.”
“ oh, s/he ran? you know why s/he ran?! because s/he knew i would blame her/him, which i did.”
“ it’s not true. __, s/he’s lying about it. i would never do it.”
“ why? why? why would s/he do that?”
“ why would s/he intentionally try to hurt you?”
“ so, what’s s/he gonna get out of this?”
“ it worked before, and it worked now.”
“ ain’t that right, ___?”
“ please, please, please! oh, jesus, don’t burn me. please! no…!”
“ no, no, please! no! no!”
“ now, you know i hate this shit.”
“ just tell me you did it and that you’re sorry and i won’t have to do this.”
“ yes– yes, i did it. all of it. i’m sorry. i’m so sorry.”
“ please… i’m sorry. please. i’m sorry.”
“ that’s all you had to say.”
“ i trust you, ___. never should’ve doubted ya.”
“ i’m sorry.”
“ ice cold! i love it.”
“ are you all right?”
“ better than that.”
“ you can call next but it might be a while.”
“ i did. but you can’t have ‘em.”
“ do not insult my intelligence.”
“ said pills aren’t for __, said pills are for __. that’s why you wanted two.”
“ didn’t s/he kill your friends?”
“ turnabout and all that.”
“ you’re replaceable to him/her. i, on the other hand, am not.”
“ you’re a coward.”
“ that is a correct assessment.”
“ may i come in?”
“ so, how you liking it here?”
“ are we doing right by dr. smarty-pants?”
“ it’s all right. i get it.”
“ i know how hard it can be to accept change to get on the right team.”
“ i need you to understand something. i do not make this invitation to anyone. and i sure as shit do not make it lightly.”
“ hey… hey! you don’t need to be scared anymore.”
“ you don’t need to be scared. you just need to answer me one question. and it’s a big one.”
“ hey, be careful with that.”
“ hey, you want to get burnt by molten metal? ‘cause that’s exactly how you get burnt by molten metal.”
“ you on board?”
“ i am. just like you.”
lines that have made me React.
literally just. lines that i've seen on tumblr or twitter or instagram or television that have made me react in a wide range of ways!
" why is it called creepypasta and not fettucine afraido? "
" my best feature is that i'm blindingly intelligent for about thirty seconds a day. "
" if you live to be 100, you should make up some fake reason why, just to fuck with people... like claim you ate a pinecone every single day. "
" if i crashed into the ocean, i would simply not drown. rip to steve rogers but i'm different. "
" in my defense your honor i had really good music on and it made me want to do something evil. "
" no offense to myself but what the fuck am i actually doing. "
" someone said to me, god gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers. this whole time i never even asked to be in the army. "
" how do they know an animal is extinct like?? you looked everywhere?? "
" just like regular ballet except everyone is holding a sword! "
" unlike my wife/husband/partner, i expect you not to cheat. "
" against my best wishes, i have been shot. "
" no curse of mine shall befall you from my dying breath. "
" and what i really intended to say in the end remains unsaid. "
" astrology is more real than the stock market. "
" ladies and gentlemen, balls of anxiety of all ages... "
" actually, life is beautiful and i have time. "
" this world may be cruel but i'm still kickin'. "
" what if, and hear me out, people DO love you? "
" hope is a dangerous thing. "
" i want to go home. "
" i did not kill him/her/them, but i wish that i had. "
" we don't have to stay here... "
" this tastes........... unlucky to me. "
" what in the actual fuckily duckily. "
" i will not eat one IOTA of shit! "
" you kneel before my throne unaware that it was born of lies. "
" do what you must, for i have already won. "
" ten grand??? for a baby?! "
" everyone knows that putin made a pocket-sized russia. "
" things are going to be difficult. but you are going to be difficulter. "
" ted just be letting anyone talk. "
" in his defense his wife triple dog dared him and called him a pussy. "
" NESSIE THE LOCH NESS MONSTER HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND IS BEING KEPT-- "
" i wonder when the bermuda triangle stopped working. not a lot of drama there anymore. "
" no wonder the ice caps are melting, i'm fucking HOT! "
" dumplings imply the existence of one large dumple. "
Hug starters
"I need a hug."
"Please just... don't let go."
"Can I get some pressure?"
"....I don't want to move."
"...can you hug me tighter?"
"You want a hug?"
"Well... you just looked like you needed some pressure."
"Want me to let go?"
"You can move it you want."
"...this is the first time in a while I've been hugged."
"I love you, that's what this is for."
"You deserve all the hugs in the world."
murkyhazed:
sadly, daryl does have that problem. he wasn’t really cut out for the whole PARENTING THING, but he was trying. didn’t have a choice, with michonne gone. he still can’t believe she did that, just LEFT her own children behind. sometimes it makes him angry, but he forces those emotions down. he has to remain calm, since a lot of people try looking to him now for guidance. he never wanted this, but like everything else it was thrown in his lap.
❝ ain’t cut out for the whole STERN PARENT role, i guess. ❞ because he doesn’t want to resemble his own father. he’s AFRAID to get angry, to say no because he knows what that felt like. daryl does everything in his power to be the EXACT OPPOSITE. ❝ don’t think i could be doin’ none of this without you… so yeah, better keep your word. or i’ll be real pissed. ❞
Carol reaches over and takes his hand, running her thumb along the back of it. She knows it scares him, and she can’t blame him for being scared, she was too. If she lingers on it too long she gets angry at Michonne for what she did. For having two beautiful, healthy, living children, and walking a way for a man.
“Well you’re in luck.” She forces a smile. “Ezekiel wasn’t great at being the stern parent either, so that was me.” She watches his face, she can see the thoughts in his head, the worry about what’s to come for them. “Yeah? Well I’m not gonna leave ya, or those kids. Lord knows they’ve had enough upheaval. I’ll help you with the hard stuff, and you help me with the hard stuff. Just like always. Deal?”
What made you fall in love with Ed? Was he always abusive or did it happen gradually?
“He was charming at first. We uh - we met in college. He was a senior, it was my freshman year. He was a football player and I was just some 18 year old from the English program.” She recalls. “I- I was flattered someone like him would be interested in me. Looking back that was probably his reasoning in the first place. I was younger, away from home for the first time, he was cool, popular, good looking if you can believe it. One of the first red flags I guess.”
“There were red flags in the beginning, I just didn’t know it at the time.” She whispers. “Little things, the way I dressed, wore my hair. He didn’t like any of my friends. By the end of my Sophmore year he’d convinced me to move in with him - he’d graduated by then - off campus about half an hour away. He hated it when I went out without him, I thought he was just lonely, I was in class all day and he didn’t want me gone all evening too.” She swallows hard. “He didn’t hit me until after we were married though. We’d just moved to Georgia actually, and at first it wasn’t common. I just - I just wrote it off to stress or drinking but by the time Sophia was born it was a regular part of life.”
"So on a scale of one ta ten and one bein' the best and ten bein' ya'd rather suck face wit' a walker, where do ya put a date wit' Ol' Merle if I asked?"
Carol rolls her eyes. “I’ll take the walker.”
