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A black woman has told how she is repeatedly mistaken for a prostitute when she is seen on the arm of her white husband. Maureen Evans Arthurs, from Columbia, Maryland, who has been married to her husband Jamie for more than ten years, writes via the Washington Post that it's not uncommon for people to get the wrong idea about their relationship simply because of their differing skin colors. She says the first instance was four years ago at an event in California, where a man asked to buy her a drink while she was on Jamie's arm. When she declined, he whispered: 'How much?'