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The only time Benjamin January ever actually exchanged words with Hesione LeGros was when they were both hiding behind a piano in a New Orleans hotel hoping they wouldn't be massacred by pirates. It wasn't a long conversation. She said, "I'm gonna shoot that fuckin' man of mine for this." And January-who had just turned nineteen and was hoping to make twenty-replied, "What makes you think any of us will live to see you do that?" As it happened, someone else shot her man a number of years later in the Yucatan, but at the time January hoped that the dark-eyed little African Venus beside him would have that honor, and fairly soon. The man ce...