Which of the following is not likely to be an early sign of a damaged relationship?
a. you begin to feel a sense of discomfort with your friend.
b. your friend begins finding excuses to break lunch dates with you.
c. your cousin comments that you and your friend don't seem as close.
d. your friend suddenly explodes in anger at you for no apparent reason.

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.