100 Love Letters I'll Never Send (..You gotta Know...") (C) 2018
"What did you expect! You took me from home! TOOK ME AWAY FROM ALL I KNEW! MY FRIENDS! MY FAMILY! I WANTED A MAN! DIDN'T WANT TO BE ANYONE'S MOTHER!" She was screaming. I don't get it. Joshua, Carlton, Carmelita and I were playing cards. My father sent us all these new things for our den. Big table six chairs. Just in time for Joshua and Carlton. We played cards. Of course, Joshua brought his favorite adult beverage, Black Velvet. We were the ultimate team, ‘Team Carmelita’ “…verses. The Heathens!” Carlton exclaimed. Carmelita cleaned the apartment up nice. I spent hours cooking crawfish. At first she was all hospitable. Once again, she turned into someone else. Talking with big stories about her outlaw family. How they used to bet big, how they were part of the prohibition era. Carlton looked skeptical. He saw right through her story. Just kept his head down. He was planning his next move, singing lines from Kenny Rogers “The Gambler.” "..k now when