“No indeed. I don’t like that, talk about no divorce. No. If you gonna marry somebody, you supposed to marry them – you said ’til death do us apart. You hang there. It’s gonna be dark days, light days, but you supposed to hang there until death do you apart. And I always say, “Lord, I want one husband, I want all of my children to be by that one man.’ And God fixed it so. We got 15 heads. That’s the first man I married, never been married no more and never will. No, I will not. And I got 15 children by that one man and I thank God. And I did just like He say. We was not divorced. I’m still Mrs. Moore. I be Mrs. Moore until I’m dead and gone and I’ll still be Mrs. Moore.”
Mrs. Velma T. Moore, Grapeland, MS from Celebrating the Church Mothers of the Delta, Southern Living Magazine
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