Tell Mama it’s all right.”
“I want you to listen to your mama, Hope,” I replied. Xnxx After seedin’ her Philomena an’ me talked some in low whispers. I breathed a sigh of relief. “Ah’ll treat everybody just like y’all’s mah children.” That wuz the anser I wuz lookin for. Beth smiled an’ nodded. I raised my hands quick like so they wouldn’t shoot me right away. That made them wives six an’ seven. She smiled an’ told me I wuz goin’ to be a daddy. “You didn’t answer my sister’s question.”
“Look, Mother,” said the other one. We wuz all sposed to keep mum but we can’t have no secrets from our husbin, can we, Mama.”
“Thass right, baby. For one thing, there wuzn’t no way I could chase after them galoots. I heard enough. I would present them to each of my wives. The colored man wuz dead when I checked him. “Ah wish ah could be yo wife.” I wouldn’t a minded except there seemed to be some people in Texas that said white people an’ colored people shouldn’t wed each other.
