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[1StrongBlackMan]

Last night, I was talking with an elderly family member. She was relating a family story about how my Uncle "Chief" found/picked his wife. Uncle "Chief" was a flashy and troublesome guy ... in the mid 30s, at the age of about 18 (no one was really sure of his age) he had to leave Alabama ... something about his "relationship" with a white man's wife.

As he was hatting up, he "acquired" a flashy, brand new car. On his way out of town, he came up with a plan to "get him a good woman." He drive to the neighboring county until he found the first field of share-croppers. He stopped in the middle of the road and blow the horn ... He decided he was getting the first woman that popped her head up.

His thinking was he wanted a hard-working woman ... any woman in a sharecropping field had to be hard working; but the key was being the first to pop her head up ... that meant she was ready to get out of town!

10 kids and 3 business ownerships later, it seems his strategy worked!

I love hearing family tales.