Jennifer Colley and James Colley have been married for over thirty years, and like most couples, they've had their ups and downs. When they met as students at the University of Florida in the 1980s, Jennifer was a five-foot-ten, red-haired and green-eyed, alabaster-skinned and delightfully trim newcomer to the Sunshine State by way of metropolitan Amarillo, Texas. The ambitious young woman came to the University of Florida to study business administration, and along the way she met James Colley, a six-foot-one, burly and dark-skinned, muscular and ruggedly handsome African-American student from the City of Macon, Georgia.
The two fell in love, stuck it out throughout their halcyon days at the University of Florida, got married and had two sons, Stefano and Mario. They moved into a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, and raised their family. James Colley, the proud holder of a Master's degree in Accounting from the University of Florida, spent many years working for the international accounting firm Windsor & Drake, eventually rising to the rank of regional manager. James was proud to provide for his wife Jennifer and their sons, whom he loved very much. Life wasn't easy for the Colley clan as an interracial family in the Deep South, but they managed just fine.
Jennifer Colley worked for various companies after graduating from the University of Florida with a Master's degree in business administration. In the cutthroat business world of the Sunshine State, the white wife and mother from Texas learned to navigate through treacherous waters. The same white businessmen who were eager to hire Jennifer because of her good looks and impressive educational credentials and work experience would turn red when they saw her with her black husband James and their mixed-race sons at the local mall for example.
In the United States of America, much fuss is made about the daily racism that black men and black women experience. While the system covertly and at times openly discriminated against black Americans, life wasn't exactly easy for white women who were the wives of black men and the mothers of mixed-race families. White males, notorious for their bigotry and insecurity, often covertly mistreated white women who crossed the racial line. Jennifer Colley experienced this time and again in Florida, but never let it stop her.
The matriarch of the Colley clan was Texas born and bred, and the rednecks of Florida couldn't hold a candle to her. Jennifer Colley would do anything for her family, and wouldn't hesitate to use lethal force against anyone who threatened them, whether the aggressor was black as midnight or white as snow. Jennifer's husband James Colley loved her for her beauty, her inner strength and her fearlessness. For thirty wonderful years they were the most passionate of lovers. Until James illness changed things between them forever. Jennifer focused on her family, while ignoring her own womanly needs.
