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By AnonymKatie Crouch
And then there's the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound of my daughter's laugher, in Mom's and Georgia's locked fingers, in the warm pressure of J.T.'s hand. It will leave, and it will come again, and when it does I'll give up everything and take it. Just like an addict. Like dry grass in new rain. It's not something I'm proud of necessarily. Then again, maybe I am.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
As a Magnolia, you are always onstage.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
[A]s if enjoying a last, drawn-out supper, he sips on Alexandria's shadows.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
But what if Alex changes it all around?...Where does that leave you?...But really...what if she's right?
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
[D]ear...You just charmed the pants off her with that hunting trip!
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
...[D]espite the concoction's disgusting lecture, it's cleared every blemish from my face, as promised. I am a Buzzard-created beauty, head to toe.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
Every nerve in my body says to run after Thaddeus and tell him everything. But I know there's no way he can know the truth.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
Fantasy games are unbecoming to a lady, she says, closing the subject. "And the idea that you would even dream of spending time with some strange boy when you could be reinforcing your relationship with your Magnolia compatriots leaves me breathless. You are going to have to earn the respect of the other girls.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
...he went off to Paris. Actually, I don't know for sure that Paris is where he ended up.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
I can't help frowning. "But Madison designed that cocktail dress herself...
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
I'm sorry. I just meant that all this is new to me. I get lost sometimes." I give her my most honest expression.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
Magnolia leadership isn't a given. Not forever. You have to earn your spot.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
[M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
My membership has given me everything I've ever wanted.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
...[O]ne of the first things a Magnolia League debutante learns: Keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
She's as common as pig tracks. Just her being here lowers the tone of the entire city.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
The fact is I'm in a serious jam.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
The heartache of your brother and your best friend? I mean, Hayes if it's not your business, then whose business is it?
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
There you are! Aren't you precious?
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
We are all somewhere else, during.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
[W]ithout the League, you'd be nothing.
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By AnonymKatie Crouch
You are in training, and therefore your personal taste and opinions are not to be trusted until they are fully and reliably shaped - by me.
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