Norman Reedus, photographed at Cherry Hollow Farm in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. Part of me is just going to be sitting on the bathroom floor, with a drink, in tears. And very few have as big an impact as this show has had, in pop culture, society. Most television shows never go this long. The Walking Dead has been part of your life for twelve years.

Every time I look at that, it reminds me of my pop. Right next to my daughter’s little castle in the yard here, I planted a magnolia tree. He loved magnolia trees, so I got one and planted it right outside his bedroom window so he could smell the flowers.

Right before my dad passed away, he went back to his house in Raleigh. My backyard has a little creek going through it. Everyone’s like, “Are you going to sell your house once the show’s over?” I don’t think I’m going anywhere. Or I get on a bike and head in a direction I’ve never been before. I have an old Camaro that I drive around here. If my package ends up at a house down the street, it’s not an inconvenience to go say hello and get it. I have a house that’s in the country, down a long dirt road. And Daryl’s iconic vest, soiled by the woods and years of zombie blood, complete with crossbow, is in the Smithsonian. Daryl Dixon is also getting a spin-off show. And while The Walking Dead just wrapped filming the last season of its epic run, Reedus is still revving up-his first novel, The Ravaged, comes out in April, followed later this spring by his new whiskey, Big Bald Head. Also a photographer and a motorcycle enthusiast, Reedus has his own AMC series about bikes, Ride with Norman Reedus, on which he takes celebrity friends like Robert Rodriguez and Josh Brolin on two-wheeled excursions all over the world. The Florida-born actor, fifty-three, now splits his time between New York City and Palmetto, Georgia, near where the series was filmed. After eleven seasons of AMC’s The Walking Dead, the character, with his crossbow and eagle eye, has become a hero in one of the most popular TV shows in history, brought to life with Norman Reedus’s effective glower and soft-spoken care. There are memorable protagonists in postapocalyptic fiction, but few have the legacy or longevity of Daryl Dixon.

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