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“ It might take a day. It might take a year, but what’s meant to be will always find its way. ”

Beth and Daryl are polar opposites on the personality spectrum. He is gruff and taciturn. She is talkative and openly emotional. He is perceived as strong and she is perceived as weak. Beth spends most of the episode pushing Daryl’s buttons and trying to get him to admit that he cares about everything that has happened to them and all that they have lost. She acts out with a new “FUCK EVERYTHING” attitude as she goes on a quest for alcohol and shows a new spark that we hadn’t seen in her before. Daryl spends most of the episode barely tolerating her presence and then taunting her (“What do you want from me, girl?”). Daryl is SO broken and the whole episode he is trying to keep Beth at arm’s length BECAUSE she is breaking him down. He’s so desperately trying to keep up his walls around her and he just can’t do it. When Daryl finally breaks down and admits his guilt over Herschel’s death (“Maybe I could have done something.”) and Beth immediately hugs him from behind, my heart BROKE for these two lost souls finding comfort in each other. Then, just when I thought my pain couldn’t get any worse, they had a heart to heart on the porch and Daryl opened up about his past like he never had to anyone before.