‘He Started Saying How Much He Loved Me and Wanted Me to be His Wife …’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times PROTHANIEL AND NATOSHA HARRIS Live: Bessemer Married: June 6, 1992 Met: Fall 1989 during their junior year at A.H. Parker High School. However, it wasn’t until attending a house party that they would be introduced through a mutual friend. “Prothaniel was not my type at all,” said Natosha, “but his smile took me in and made me kinda fall for him at the house party.” [Friends] made the introduction [between me and Natosha] and I found her to be a nice person and from there we stuck together,” said Prothaniel. First date: Spring 1990, at the Wildwood Movie Theater off Lakeshore Dr. [since closed] where they saw a film they can’t recall. “It was my first date and my mother dropped us off. I was nervous because I didn’t know what we were going to talk about or how it was going to go, but Prothaniel made me feel at ease…,” Natosha said. Prothaniel was also new to dating. “I sat there stiff as a board,” he said.. “We just sat there and enjoyed each other’s company.” The turn: During their senior year (at Parker High School), in the fall of...