A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's book Club)
“And it’s not like I gave a crowd of women the opportunity to turn me down. I never asked a one. I never came close to asking. Until I met Ruby I suppose the sweetest thing I’d ever asked a woman to do for me was to hold a mule still while I hitched the plow to him.
I had the big mouth with Ruby though, going all into how I’d been waiting for the right one to come along, saving myself and so forth. She could’ve looked right in my face and said, “Bullshit. You were born a dried up skinny man ...and here you are expecting me to think you let a world of women pass you by, more plowboy than playboy.” But she didn’t laugh at me. All she said was she wanted somebody to take care of her, and if I promised to, she’d marry me. I said then, I say now, “That’s the best thing in the world for me, for the both of us, best thing for anybody to do for somebody.” You hear tell of somebody saying how so-and-so made him feel like a real man, how so-and-so made somebody feel like a natural woman and so forth, it’s all the time on the television and the radio, you hear all about that and I can honestly say that before I married Ruby I’d felt like a boy on the outside looking in, but Ruby, when she loved me, I said, This is what it must feel like to be a man.MoreLess
I had the big mouth with Ruby though, going all into how I’d been waiting for the right one to come along, saving myself and so forth. She could’ve looked right in my face and said, “Bullshit. You were born a dried up skinny man ...and here you are expecting me to think you let a world of women pass you by, more plowboy than playboy.” But she didn’t laugh at me. All she said was she wanted somebody to take care of her, and if I promised to, she’d marry me. I said then, I say now, “That’s the best thing in the world for me, for the both of us, best thing for anybody to do for somebody.” You hear tell of somebody saying how so-and-so made him feel like a real man, how so-and-so made somebody feel like a natural woman and so forth, it’s all the time on the television and the radio, you hear all about that and I can honestly say that before I married Ruby I’d felt like a boy on the outside looking in, but Ruby, when she loved me, I said, This is what it must feel like to be a man.MoreLess
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