“Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon and after their three o’clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer.”
—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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My sisters in New Orleans and Houston would say, “Miss Lee nailed it!”