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Name: Courtney (Middle: Louise) Holloway

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Profession: Street Performer (Magic, Art, Singing, Fire-Dancing, Balloon Animals, Tricks, etc.)

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Personality: Courtney is a very layed-back and nonchalant person. She tries to never worry about anything in her life, and she would rather relax and have a good laugh then fret about everything going on. She is silly and sarcastic, and loves to poke fun about everything in the world; she's a jokester, but not overly so. She knows when to stop, and she never takes it too far. She is very serene, calm and wise about the ways of the world- she's hippie-esque. She tries to always give advice to those that need it, and she never gets angry at someone, no matter how unreasonable they happen to be. She's mother-like and intelligent, prefering to nurture and calm someone than egg their anger on. She's a lover of nature, and she quite likes just looking up and staring at the sky.

Backstory: Courtney was born into a family of drug addicts in the poorest neighborhood of Chicago. Her father abandoned her and her family when she was just a toddler, and her mother was a crack addict, an alcoholic, and in general, abusive and uncaring. When she was just 14, her mother died of an overdose of methamphetamines. Courtney and her younger sister, Dae, then aged 13, were put into an even worse foster home, where they were constantly abused. Courtney and Dae left during the middle of the night, beliving they could make it on their own. Somehow, they managed to scrape together enough money to purchase two bus tickets to New York City. There, they both found employment in a deli-shop, but to make extra money, they moonlighted as street-performers. Eventually, they became monetarily stable enough to rent a small apartment, where though they no-longer needed to, continued on with street performing, as they both had a passion for it. When the infection was announced, due to New York's vast size and gargantuan population, Courtney and Dae attempted to make it to the outskirts of the city through the sewer system. Along the way, Dae was bitten and killed, though Courtney escaped, one of the few in New York to do so. Though Courtney is devastated by the loss of her sister, she knows that Dae would want her to push on and attempt to live. Courtney is currently, by herself, heading in the direction of some certain survivors. ..