Carolyn Pardon
Appearances
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
A sweet, loving mother and daughter. She was real smart. She took a little college when she finished high school. But, you know, she had these kids, and she just loved them to death. We just wonder, you know, what happened. We don't know. Well, I don't have no reward to give them, but I know one thing. I'd hug their neck. I would do anything, anything to get to see my baby again. I mean, really.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
It makes me want to cry. I'm sorry. I don't know what I'd do if I was to see her walk to that door. I probably wouldn't be able to see her, but I'd be out. I love her. She's always my baby girl. That's what I always called her, baby girl.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
John, to Morris. Tessie would come to the house. She said, Mama, I can't stand it no more. And when he goes to bed at night, he takes some kind of club with him. She's scared of him. And she'd stay with me, and then she'd go back over there. She'd stay with me, and she'd go back over there. But it was the kid's daddy, you know. But he was just violent. He was just mean.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
He beat on her all the time. He sent her to the hospital with a black eye, with her eye hanging out.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
He told me, standing out in my backyard, he says, he used to call me Mama, but he quit calling me Mama. He says, Carolyn, I was standing at the back door, and this is just what he told me. He says, you won't never see Tessie again. If you do, it will be a long time.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
Well, she would go off for a week or two, but she always came back. She was never gone over a week or two, maybe not even two weeks. I waited, you know, but I said, well, she's going to come back, you know, because she always came back to her kids.