Been Together 30 years. ‘She Fuss at me Like My Mama Because She Concerned About My Well-Being…”

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times DEMARCUS ‘MARC’ AND TIFFANY BROWN  Live: Pinson  Married: Feb. 10, 1996 Met: September 1993, at Troy University. They were both members of the gospel choir and met during rehearsal the day Marc joined. “I was in the tenor section and she was leading the song we were rehearsing, and I thought she was cute. We didn’t actually talk to each other until we were getting ready for the African Alliance Fashion Show [on campus] and we were both modeling in the show… and during a break, she was standing at the water fountain and I went over and introduced myself, I said ‘Hi, my name is Marc’, and she said ‘I know who you are’, and I thought that was a good thing, I was smiling and then she wiped the smile off my face,” Marc laughed. Marc was in the choir and on the football team, and Tiffany let him know where she stood with football players when he offered to take her out. “She said ‘I don’t date football players’, and I wasn’t used to that. I was used to girls’ hearts going pity pat because I said I...