She would have shaken her head, widened her eyes, put her hands on her ample hips and insisted, "It's not fittin'; it's just not fittin'; I tell you, Mr. Rhett, somthin' not quite right is going on in that big house with all the porches."
Had Butterfly McQueen watched the shenanigans of the Gordons and the Ritchies between 1899 and 1903, she would have had a few things to say. Trust me on this.
From Fair Verona to Peyton Place, even including the movie Picnic, "history of the nation is only the history of its villages written large." Or so penned Woodrow Wilson in 1900.
When convention says one thing and the heart says another, tongues wag.
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