07-06-2020, 01:57 PM
She shook her head and the unpleasant memory away. "Just a memory," she said with a half-smile. "Sometimes if I behaved in a way that wasn't befitting how I was being raised, I'd spend the day chewing on a heel of stale bread for my only meal all day. I behaved the best I could to avoid that but could never completely avoid it." She shook her head, "But that was a long time ago and it's over."