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Taffy

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Welcome to the sleepy, all-Black southern town of Bledsoe, where colored residents proudly declare "ain't nothing white here 'cept milk and teeth." It's 1935. Meet Taffy Bledsoe Freeman. She doesn't need her gift of second sight to know her "mockery …

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Welcome to the sleepy, all-Black southern town of Bledsoe, where colored residents proudly declare "ain't nothing white here 'cept milk and teeth." It's 1935. Meet Taffy Bledsoe Freeman. She doesn't need her gift of second sight to know her "mockery of a marriage" to a man twice her age is far from good. Then Taffy stumbles into Roam Ellis: her long-lost love and the man she was meant to marry. Old wounds are exposed. But when pain subsides, passion rises, thrusting Taffy and Roam into a hurricane of buried secrets, betrayal, family secrets and lies.

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"Welcome to the sleepy, all-Black southern town of Bledsoe, where colored residents proudly declare "ain't nothing white here 'cept milk and teeth." It's 1935. Meet Taffy Bledsoe Freeman. She doesn't …"

— Margaret

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