Subject: Bessie Smith

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  Photo: Carl Van Vechten Bessie Smith wrote the book on bad men.     Lawd, I don't think no man's love can last. They'll love you to death then treat you like a thing of the past. There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood. Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

  May 27, 2009