Aw, you've really got me feeling for Angela here. This was a very believable picture of Angela's childhood - that she's somewhat uptight and serious about her morals, but not as much as the Angela we know today, a change probably caused by so many incidents like this where she was taken advantage of, mocked, and overall treated wrongly. Sad.

Author's Response:

Yeah, I am glad you like it. In reality, I am a lot like Angela (probably more than I even admit to myself). It is probably believable that if those situations happened to me (one less extreme version happened to me of one of them), I would probably be worse off than I am.

I just really always connected with her the more I learn, because even though she is generally a pain in the ass, she is a lot like me.