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FICTIONThere was a time in the South when colored school teacherswere revered by everybody in the community, white and colored. Th eserespected mentors were predominantly female and taught in elementaryschools where the bulk of southern school attendance was concentrated. Traditionally these respected women were choice ladies sought after andtargeted by a coterie of colored men, many who had not completed theelementary grades, and were low wage earners. Th eir thang was to marryone of these women distinguished by their roll books. Most of these menwere decent, and some loved the women who would elevate them tostatures they would never attain otherwise. And there was Joe CephusDivine who rejected all women but school teachers and who justifi ed hisrejection: I didnt LOVE none of them--other women. A mans got to atleast LOVE a woman he doesnt want. I MARRIED WHO I WANTED. A MAN DOESNT HAVE TO LOVE WHO HE WANTS. Aftertwo marriages and two divorces, Joe Cephus marries Johnnye Jamison,who also has an agendaremembering you are a walking cosmos.