My husband loved me and I loved him, that’s all I needed. We were sitting in Ruth’s house having coffee at our reception and my husband (oh, I was proud to say it too—“my husband”) said to me, “We have to be strong. You know what people will say about us, Ruth. They’ll try to break us up.” I said, “I know. I’ll be strong,” and over the years we were tested, but we never split up or even spent a night apart except when he took the kids to North Carolina to see his parents. I never could go south with him because of the danger. The first time I went south with him was the last time, when I took
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