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My Daddy was a chocolate man and wore a uniform. Ironically,

at Leroy's and my wedding reception, the people from Kinston started
calling Leroy "Little Poppa," because he and my father favored so

much. I also had given a mother a big picture of Leroy and I walking
into our reception, and she thought it was a picture of Big Poppa and

me.

Ms. Baseball and I would have this ongoing debate because I felt

that was an uppity attitude, our men with names on their shirts needed

loving too. Sister then had to break it down to me. She said, "You
cannot date a man who is in his forties, making minimum wage, and

you have a salary of $100,000. You are not evenly yoked." Dr. C had
also said something along the same line, but I was still in my passion

for helping everyone. I get the message now, the example Ms. Baseball
used gave me no choice but to reevaluate my thought process about

the men I was automatically attracted to.

The arbitration ended with a trial scheduled in August. I am still

amazed that I had already spent $8,000 for attorney fees; for what? We
had no children, the only thing connecting us was the real estate and

taxes and we had to go to a trial over that B.S.?

At the same time, God was helping me to have a break, the
buyers’ bankers fell through and we had to push the settlement
forward to the end of May. I was able to breathe, and I was also

determined to return to the timesharing we had at Virginia Beach. Our

week was approaching, and I was determined to spend one last time

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