"If he'd only come here a single man to be our pastor before she did something awful to get him to marry her in Macon, I could've put a stop to it. I know all about her kind and I would've saved him from her clutches. She's not the first back-alley slut I've seen in my life."
Elderly, un-named, church-going widow, quoted from Erskine Caldwell's excellent book 'Deep South - Memory and Observation'.
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