she gets to alcorn. she is this very prim, you know, raised to be like a good girl.led the chanceanets. the last thing, her grandmother who raised her and her aunt, whose name also is myrlie, who she is named after, they said, there are three people to stay away from in college. upper classmen, veterans, and football players. medgar was all three. she didn't tell them for a while. the first day she gets there, she's leaning against a pole. this handsome football player walks up to her and says, "you better get off that pole. you'll get electrocuted." she had long hair and says, "pardon me, i think i'm fine," and blows him off. she's thinking, wow, that man is fine, right? she falls in love with him. over time, the way they actually came to be a couple is that he was seven years older than she was, which was a big no-no to her parents. he was this world war ii veteran. he was also this guy who knew the world. you know, his parents had had them read the chicago defender, so they'd know black people were more than just enslaved people. they had a history. he was obsesse