Apolonia opened the oven door to check the roasting chicken, and the aroma of the
cooking bird wafted across the room, filling it with sweet pungent aroma. "Another
twenty minutes and it'll be ready," she said to herself, while giving the sweet potatoes a
quick stir. Her husband Hank would be home any minute now, and as was her custom,
she always had a hearty meal waiting for him on the table. Even after five years of
marriage Apolonia still got a thrill when her husband entered a room, and she often
wondered how many wives could say that!?! Being a good Catholic girl of strict Italian
parents, everyone was shocked when she up and married Hank, a tall black man from the
west coast! Her mother cried her eyes out upon receiving the news, but Apie, as her
father called her, was adamant and even though it hurt her parents deeply, married her
college sweetheart the day after he graduated from law school! As the years passed, even
Apie's mother had ... MORE
