When the daughter of the Governor ran away from the overrun prison yard, she came upon a new group of people. A lady with short gray hair, Tyreese holding a baby Mackenzie was unfamiliar with and Lizzie and Mika Samuels. That's how Mackenzie really...
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MAMA SAID | 1.1 "TALK ABOUT PERSONAL" mackenzie blake | 2010
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Ever since Denise Blake died on the highway from Greenville to the Blake family's hometown of Saint Marks, the Blake household was a bitter place to be. At least, it could look bitter from onlookers, the ones that would peer briefly through the windows of the apartment as they passed on the sidewalk, everyone in the small town knowing what had happened on that sad day in January of 2010. How Philip Blake was left to sink into his own misery after he received the news and how his daughters - Penny and Mackenzie - were still barely old enough to understand the full extent of their own pain.
However, bitter was not how anybody inside the Blake family would describe their household - and that wasn't because Penny nor Mackenzie really understood what that word meant. Everybody in the Blake family, while obviously utterly devastated by the sudden demise of Denise, it caused a shift in the atmosphere. A realization that with Denise gone, they only ever had each other. And Philip Blake realized that his daughters were going to be the only things that would ever mean so much to him.
He used to hate his boring, dragging life. His office job was as monotonous as ever, his schedule never changed and every time he'd make even the smallest of mistakes, his boss - a man so much younger than him that he grew up in a different generation - would put him down and make sure he'd never make the same mistake again. It made him feel weak. Being put down for a mistake that barely altered any paperwork that passed through his cubicle, being stuck in that cubicle like a real prisoner, being pulled in every direction to keep earning enough of a living to keep his family, who he loved so much, afloat.
