That joke is worse than terrible and so she laughs even harder, just for a moment before flopping back onto her pillow. "God, I needed that."

When's the last time she really laughed? She can't recall. What comes first to mind is washing laundry in the quarry with Andrea, Amy, and Jackie another life ago. It's less funny now that none of them are around to share the memory. Carol used to laugh so often, but that was gone long before the world ended. She's glad that part of her isn't completely buried beneath bitterness and battle scars.