FORSYTH COUNTY -- Every third person, most dressed in purple, stood at their table Thursday. Totaling about two per table, Shandra Dawkins said they represented the ratio of women in the United States who will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. The crowd had just heard testimonies from two women about their survival through domestic violence, though they explained that at times they went so low they became addicted to drugs as a coping mechanism or they thought they may be better off dead, just like her husband said.