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53 “If war comes”: “Milledgeville: 150th Birthday,” Union-Recorder, April 1953.
54 “in public the rights”: E. A. Houston, “Tribute to Mr. Peter J. Cline,” Union-Recorder, March 7, 1916
54 “trouped through”: FOC, working draft, GCSU.
54 “an austere nun”: Betty Boyd Love, “Recollections of Flannery O’Connor,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 14 (1985): 65.
54 “Sister was the first”: Regina O’Connor marginal writing, Betty Boyd Love, “Recollection of Flannery O’Connor” manuscript, GCSU.
55 “Sister would always”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.
55 “a strong resemblance”: Love, “Recollections,” 65.
56 “Infants, girls”: Josephine Hendin, The World of Flannery O’Connor (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972), 6.
56 “We’d have these big”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.
56 “a speaking likeness”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Sally Fitzgerald.
56 “alcoholic”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.
57 “Mary Flannery needs to work”: “Report of Mary Flannery O’Connor. Peabody Elementary School. 1937–1938,” GCSU.
58 “Her mother handpicked”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.
58 “gold-rimmed”: unidentified fragment, GCSU.
58 “I remember sitting”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Frances Florencourt.
58 “Oh, I’ve found Amelia Earhart”: Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 45.
58 “She would bring”: Regina Sullivan, “Armstrong State College Panel on O’Connor,” Armstrong College, Savannah, Ga., May 1989.
59 “I could sew”: FOC, “The King of the Birds,” CW, 832.
59 “They played better”: Charlotte Conn Ferris, in discussion with the author, November 4, 2003.
59 “I was always interested”: Elizabeth Shreve Ryan, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2004.
59 “I think the times”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 47–48.
59 “We had a running”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.
60 “the invisible man”: Robert J. Wilson III, in discussion with the author, January 5, 2004.
60 “I remember sitting”: Frances Florencourt, in discussion with the author, December 10, 2004.
60 “To this day”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.
60 “wild horses”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 48.
61 “Mary Flannery spent”: Ibid.
61 “obligatory”: Ibid.
61 “garden suburb”: The description of Peachtree Heights is taken mostly from Bill Bell, A History of Peachtree Heights East to 1950 (Atlanta: Gateway Publishing, 2000).
62 “Miss Mary”: FOC to Cudden Ward Dorrance, April 9, 1964, UNC.
62 “My mother and I”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.
63 “Mary Flannery and I”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.
63 “She once described”: Caroline Gordon, “Heresy in Dixie,” Sewanee Review 76, no. 2 (Spring 1968): 263.
64 “Our uncle Bernard”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.
64 “He’s never mentioned”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 17, 1964, HB, 578.
64 “Being an ex–Bell House”: “Cupid Raids the Bell House,” Atlanta Journal Magazine (February 3, 1929): 3.
64 “Bell House was musty”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.
65 “Dr. Cline Hosts”: undated clipping from Atlanta Journal, private collection.
65 “My idea about Atlanta”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, March 12, 1964, CW, 1203.
65 “Regina and my mother”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.
66 “I come from”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 28, 1956, CW, 997–98.
66 “a cross between”: Preston Russell and Barbara Hines, Savannah: A History of Her People since 1733 (Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, 1992), 158.
66 “destitute”: Susan Kessler Barnard, Buckhead: A Place for All Time (Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, 1996), 145.
66 “absurdist vision”: Spivey, Flannery O’Connor, 114.
66 “We met her”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, November 8, 1960, CW, 1135.
68 “I sure am sick”: FOC to Louise Abbot, January 13, 1961, HB, 426.