Richmond said, “Sharon’s marrying Ramsey Abrams’s boy?” When Veronica nodded yes, Richmond looked right and left to see if anyone was within earshot and then whispered, “I don’t want to talk bad about the boy, but does Sharon know about the stuff with him and the ladies’ shoes?” “Not that Abrams boy,” she snapped. “Sharon’s marrying the other brother.” Clifton, the Abrams boy now engaged to Sharon, had spent his teenage years getting stoned and committing petty theft. As an adult, he had spent more
