"Oh, I would have cut his throat at the time, if I could have found him," she confessed. "But he left town so I couldn't find him, and I got over it. That was what first turned me to Jesus."

Alberta, questioned about her stolen furniture and the dead men, explains why she didn't pursue her husband.

— Alberta Wright in Harlem Cycle #4 - The Big Gold Dream (Chester Himes, 1959)


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