Nadine
When Nadine was a little girl she saw a dress in a Montgomery Ward catalogue that she wanted so bad it hurt. She pointed it out to her mother, who just said “Yeah, that’s real pretty,” and let the matter drop. Nadine wished and wished and the dress never came and one day her mother caught her crying over it. When she found out what the problem was she brought Nadine into town and bought some cloth and then sat her down at the sewing machine with the picture of the dress torn out from the catalogue. It took her a month of working on it after school and lots of false starts but at the end she had herself a dress just like the one in the picture and her mother had taught her to sew. From then on she decided to never just sit and wait for anything she wanted in life, but to go out and get it.
The hard lesson has been that once you’ve got it, it might not be so nice. Or it might be worse, especially if it’s a man, and turn into a real nightmare. No use waiting around for it to go away then- time to take your life in your own hands. Any grief they’ve put you through gets paid back double. Nadine has lived in and around Harmony, Alabama most her life, has seen Maceo Green around through all the years and heard about him being a bootlegger and a ladies’ man, but the fact is that everything she’s seen of him she likes, there’s just such a glow to the man when he lights up that smile. So this isn’t a crush it’s a campaign, she’s taking her time to do it right and thorough, like any important job, and when it’s done and she’s got him it will be tight. Nadine Spears doesn’t drop any stitches.
