of my house. My daddy tried to reason with her on my behalf, but it didn’t work. I was given 24 hours to make a decision. I talked to your father the next day and he begged me not to kill his “baby.” He promised me the Lord would make a way! And the Lord made a way, but not because if your father. Right after you were born I found out your father had went back to the pool hall. He had been laid off from his job for four months, but he did not tell me. His reason for going back to the pool hall was the “my baby girl needs me.” The night I found out I made the same mistake my mother did. I gave him a 24 hour ultimatum I said, “Clean your hands or you will never hold your baby girl again. “He was speechless, the next day he tried to get out of running errands, for Mr. B.…show more content… They were going to kill him, because he knew too much about their operation. After the shout out, James came to the apartment, told me “to pack” all of my things the babies and go to his daddy house, that was the first time I recall praying on my knees with him. I felt so guilty I forced him almost to the point of death. We gathered our things and headed to his father’s house in the country. After talking to his father and mother we decided that he would turn himself into the police, the next day. The next morning we prayed together again, he kissed you, and he and your granddaddy went to the police station. “We thought the truth “would set him free”! but he got all that time for defending himself. Your father may not be here, but it’s not because he don’t love you and me. He was trying to clean his hands from dishonest living. The heart of a man who loves his family-is bondless-he will lay down his life, for the welfare of his family. The day your father was sentenced to two life sentences, is the same day I married him, using the same judge that sentenced
