That's what's freakin' me out about it. Prison always felt like I'd never get out. I was this little black street girl that had nobody to speak up for her. And then when I did, I was indebted to somebody. Made me resent the fuck out of it.

[She sighs.] Yeah, I guess it is. [She stands up, and hugs him without thinking much about what's hanging around her neck, momentarily suspecting it can't harm anyone.]