"Friends Say Years of Abuse led Woman to Shoot Boyfriend"
http://www.wcnc.com/news/crime/Man-shot-in-the-face-dies-118420859.html

The Domestic Violence Advocacy Council is inviting the public to march on the Square in Uptown Charlotte in response to the most recent domestic violence related homicide in Mecklenburg County.  

Traci Annette Bell, 24,  was charged in the death of Andrew Alan Nichols, who was shot in the face. Police found his body in the yard of a house at Morningside and Mack streets, off Mount Holly Road. Bell is being held without bond in the Mecklenburg County jail.

The victim, Nichols, had pleaded guilty three months ago to assaulting Bell and was placed on probation. He also had a conviction for domestic battery in Florida.
The march is intended to broaden the public’s awareness that help is available, including programs and services offering safety planning. This is not a memorial.

When: 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, March 31, 2011
Where: On the Square at Trade and Tryon streets, Charlotte, N.C.
Free parking is available at the Hal Marshall County Services Center, 700 N. Tryon St.  A free trolley runs the length of Tryon Street every seven minutes and from the Government offices on 4th St.

This is the first Mecklenburg County domestic violence-related homicide of 2011.  Last year there were a total of nine people killed at the hands of their intimate partner or due to domestic violence.

The Domestic Violence Advocacy Council organizes awareness marches the Thursday following the determination that a death in Mecklenburg County was due to domestic violence. The council includes: victim advocates, child advocates, housing advocates, mental health professionals, police, prosecutors, courts, substance abuse providers, education professionals, medical professionals, batterers' intervention programs, shelters, animal control, legislators, colleges, local companies, local churches, survivors, and interested community members.
                   
For more information on the effects of domestic violence in our community, call Mecklenburg County’s Community Support Services Women’s Commission at 704-336-3210 or the Shelter for Battered Women’s 24-hour hotline at 704-332-2513.
For more information on the Domestic Violence Advocacy Council, visit their web site at www.DVACCharlotte.com.

I think I have a lot of people to pray for.

Dr. Seuss for Life.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

 

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

 

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
alone is something you'll
be quite a lot

  

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

And the turtles, of course... All the turtles are free- As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

 Side Note: I dressed as the cat in the hat for Halloween one year.  Gah I wish I had a picture!