Merle’s 46 friends:
- Kelley Becker
- Jana Manning
- Mitchell Villegas
- Jeanette Ruiz
- Isaiah Singh
- Teresa Vaughn
- May Payne
- Jeannie Mccormick
- Jermaine Farrell
- Dina Dunn
- Stephanie Stanley
- Carole Collier
- Mekhi Schroeder
- Catherine Sherman
- Carlos Morris
- Donna Morris
- Ofelia Parks
- Toni Vazquez
- Dona Wiley
- Pauline Sanders
- Eleanor Vazquez
- Christina Young
- Melody Bishop
- Gretchen Vaughn
- Gage Rivera
- Ina Conner
- Wade Preston
- Heather Goodman
- Michael Pitts
- Martha Thornton
- Alexis Graham
- Melinda Bush
- Dallas Martinez
- Erin Robinson
- Shaun Thomas
- Ruth Tucker
- Harry Porter
- Jane Adkins
- Travis Hanson
- Denise Snow
- Tobias Hardy
- Nikki Ward
- Louis Garza
- Lorene Santos
- Keyon Foster
- Esther Callahan