Old black grandma

My great-grandma heading to her 97th birthday party! Michael Lawrence > Facebook: Vintage African American Photography.

a big old black woman... because they get to speak their minds and everyone still loves them! You know I'm right.

"Doris Payne: From dirt-poor nurse to world-famous jewel thief" - By 1975, Doris Payne had been stealing precious diamonds around the globe for several decades. But when the 44-year-old set her sights on her latest target, the world-famous Bulgari jeweler in Rome, she thought she’d met her match. The handsome young clerk didn’t have that special quality she looked for in a mark, the “combination of eager to please and stupid,” she writes in her new tell-all memoir, “Diamond Doris."

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