“It’s a ring that a man gives a woman he wants to spend his life with. Not a man like me, a square-ass nigga, one of them college boys,” Messiah whispered. “I’ll never be that, Mo. I’ll probably never be able to be that, but I want you to have the ring, a ring from me, to know that I loved you as much as any man can love a woman. When this is over, and you’ve learned what not to accept in a nigga because of my fuck ups, you’ll find somebody else. That man will be smart enough to not mess it up, but I want you to always have something to remind you that if I was able to, I would have made an
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