dahlia mitchell / d12 (fin) - cb.

a youthful, naive young girl falls in love with an older man. she falls pregnant, experiences heartbreak. she roams the seam with her young daughter, poor and famined. different men coming in and out of her life, leaving as quickly as they came. her daughter is her life - she degrades herself for money, to provide for her and her daughter. it was her and her daughter against the world, through thick and thin. her daughter's half brother volunteers, leaving her father's side of the family to disappear into thin air. they were the only two left. the only two left in this unfair, cruel world to fight for their very existence, to beat the system that fought back against them.

she is thirty-three now, her daughter sixteen. she has abandoned her previous life on the streets to provide for her daughter, to be a great example to her. she hadn't seen or experienced the things that dahlia had witnessed in her youth, and she wanted to keep it that way. ignorance is bliss, she always said. even slaving in the mines, coal dust poisoning her lungs was better than the sheets of a random man's bed, money left on the bedside table in a gesture of "kindness". she hopes her daughter finds a better life for herself than she.