CARL GRIMES’ TRIBUTE
“there’s families in here. kids. my little sister. well, that shit just breaks my heart. there’s kids at the sanctuary. you must’ve seen ‘em. even had a little baby at one of the outposts. i wonder what happened to her… none of this shit’s fair, kid. hell, you know that. you had to kill your own mom. that is screwed up. ergo, we need someone in charge who’s willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that shit doesn’t happen. oh. wait. that’s me. bad stuff does happen, but we can figure this out. we can stop this. oh, now you want to talk? see, your dad had it that i died, no matter what. he gave my people a choice. not me. now we’re gonna need a new understanding. apologies, punishment… kill me. what did you say? if you have to kill someone, if there has to be punishment, then kill me. i’m serious. you wanna die? no, i don’t. but i will. it’s gonna happen. and if me dying could stop this, if it can make things different for us, for you, for all those other kids it’d be w o r t h i t .”
October 31st, 2010 - November 10th, 2017
