Authors: Treasure E. Blue
Keyshia and Clyde (29 page)
Epilogue
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Keyshia and Clyde got married that fall in Charleston, with over two hundred family members and friends in attendance, including Clyde's mother. Ceasar was Clyde's best man, Clyde, Jr. was the ring boy, and Christina was the flower girl. Keyshia went on to become a successful attorney with the same company she'd started with, which eventually became Hemmingway, Adorno, Shaw, and Barker. Clyde landed a job with the Department of Sanitation and is currently a supervisor in Brooklyn, and both Clyde and Keyshia have been happily married ever since, devoting all their off time to their two children.
Clyde's father was released from prison almost immediately after T. Bernard Williams had him exonerated from his prison sentence. Three years later, he settled with the city for a huge lawsuit for unlawful imprisonment. He was represented by his daughter-in-law's firm, of course, and he and his wife bought a one-family house in Long Island. Every Sunday without fail, all the brothers and their families meet up at their parents' house for Sunday dinner.
Ceasar got into corporate banking and married one of his coworkers, and they now have five kids and counting.
Sonny got out of prison two years after Clyde was released and went on to become a devout Muslim and is happily married to his longtime girlfriend, Cheryl, and they also have two kids.
Martha Woods was sentenced to five years in prison for her crimes. A year into her sentencing, she had a heart attack and died in her sleep.
Clyde once again needed a favor from his good friend Mike, only this time he had to go see him in person. He was doing a two-year sentence in Green Haven for a parole violation. They talked for nearly two hours, and then Clyde wished him luck and departed. Before Clyde left he filled up Mike's commissary account and promised to keep it filled until he got out. When Mike got back to his yard, he made several inquiries about an inmate named Omar Jackson. It didn't take him long to find him and put out the word that they had a rapist in the house. Two months after that, he was given the name Omara, after he was gang-raped by over eight inmates. He is now the property of a Spanish inmate named Alito and regularly walks around wearing tight prison greens and cherry Kool-Aid as lipstick.
About the Author
T
REASURE
E. B
LUE
was born and raised in Harlem. He formerly worked with the New York Fire Department as a supervising fire inspector in the Bronx. He now devotes himself full-time to writing and promoting his novels.
Also by Treasure E. Blue
A Street Girl Named Desire
Harlem Girl Lost
Keyshia and Clyde
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 2008 by Treasure E. Blue
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Blue, Treasure E.
Keyshia and Clyde : a novel / Treasure E. Blue.
p.         cm.
1. African AmericansâNew York (State)âNew YorkâFiction.
2. Street lifeâFiction.                  I.Title.
PS3602.L85K49 2008
813'.6âdc22Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2008008557
eISBN: 978-0-345-50989-5
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