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madness. I also believe he became a womanizer to cover up being a
down-low brother.
It all began to make sense. He would always date young girls with
whom he could flash his company credit card and the flashy cars, and
they would be impressed. I recall telling him to not destroy these
young women’s lives. He rarely dated women of his age. Although he
did marry while at CGS, it only lasted six months. She was a sister who
had fallen under his craziness. She felt the clock ticking and just
wanted to get married and have a baby. She would tell me how she
had pulled a gun on Jerome after a heated argument. She said she had
locked herself in the bathroom and prayed to God to give her strength.
Ironically, after they separated, she became pregnant by another man.
She broke up with the baby’s daddy after she informed him of the
pregnancy. Jerome stepped back into her life and began to act as
though he was the baby’s daddy. CRAZY. At her baby shower, he
made a grand entrance and all the women at the shower were
congratulating both of them. It was so wild. He was the only man
present, and, of course, he was taking the attention away from the
mommy-to-be. Everyone was caught up in the madness.
At the same time as he was acting like the proud father-to-be, he
was also dating a young girl who had been a barber at Tyrone’s Barber
Shop. My sister Jewel’s Diamond Taylor quotes “Desperation is like a
perfume” was so ever true. Both of these women tied themselves to
CRAZY to the point where the young girl went to the hospital with
Jerome when he went to be with his wife in the delivery room. The
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