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81 party at the Cline Mansion: The description of the graduation party is taken mostly from the Union-Recorder, May 28, 1942.
81 “I recollect Mrs. O’Connor”: Elizabeth Shreve Ryan, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2004.
CHAPTER THREE: “MFOC”
82 “Lucy Gains College”: FOC, Folder 199-e, GCSU.
82 “the most progressive”: FOC, Folder 15b, GCSU.
82 “I enjoyed college”: FOC to Janet McKane, July 9, 1963, HB, 530.
83 “I first met Flannery”: Betty Boyd Love, draft of “Recollections of Flannery O’Connor,” GCSU.
83 “twining over”: Betty Boyd, “Reflection,” Corinthian (Fall 1942): 12.
83 “Some new, unheard-of”: M. F. O’Connor, “Pffft,” Corinthian (Fall 1944): 16.
83 “pretty terrible poems”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GCSU.
84 “have not written anything”: FOC to Betty Boyd, November 5, 1949, HB, 19.
84 “horribly serious”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GCSU.
84 “Betty Boyd was”: Jane Sparks Willingham, in discussion with the author, November 29, 2004.
84 “the two people”: Betty Boyd, “My First Impression of GSCW,” Corinthian (Fall 1942): 8.
84 “a great many hours”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GSCU.
84 “I soon became”: Betty Boyd Love, “Recollections of Flannery O’Connor,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 14 (1985): 65.
85 “Miss Mary was a businessman”: Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002) 28.
85 “Miss Mary . . . inherited”: Helen I. Greene, “Mary Flannery O’Connor: One Teacher’s Happy Memory,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 19 (1990): 45.
85 “She and Dr. Boeson”: Lou Ann Hardigne, in discussion with the author, November 1, 2004.
86 “When I sit down”: FOC, “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction,” GCSU, 9.
86 “poetic and romantic”: “Miss Katherine Scott Reads Paper to D.A.R.,” Union-Recorder, October 21, 1943.
86 “They would not have been”: Mary Barbara Tate, in discussion with the author, March 6, 2004.
86 “They would start talking”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 57.
87 “Even then, it was obvious”: William Schemmel, “Southern Comfort,” Travel-Holiday (June 1988): 72.
87 “I found my ideal”: Boyd, “My First Impression.”
87 “Girls were crying”: Louise Simmons Allen, in discussion with the author, November 2, 2004.
88 “Sugar was scarce”: Virginia Wood Alexander, e-mail to the author, October 23, 2005.
88 “This war is making us think”: Colonnade, April 11, 1942.
88 “calling attention to the prejudice”: Colonnade, April 18, 1932.
88 “foreign ideas”: William Ivy Hair, with James Bonner, Edward B. Dawson, and Robert J. Wilson III, A Centennial History of Georgia College (Milledgeville: Georgia College, 1979), 201.
89 “Palace Beauty Salon”: MFOC, “Two Fragments,” GCSU.
89 “I grew up in Madison”: Gladys Baldwin Wallace, letter to the author, October 22, 2004.
89 “People find it odd”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.
89 “older spinster-suffragette”: Helen Matthews Lewis, “GSCW in the 1940s: Mary Flannery Was There Too,” Flannery O’Connor Review 3 (2005): 50.
90 “Ours are girls”: Ibid., 51.
90 “Most of the time”: Zell Barnes Grant, letter to the author, October 25, 2004.
90 “They were so close”: Jane Sparks Willingham, in discussion with the author, November 29, 2004.
91 “She was very fond”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 55.
91 “Now let me see”: FOC, unpublished portion of letter to Betty Boyd, November 5, 1949, GCSU.
91 “This should reassure”: Ibid., November 17, 1949.
91 “shortly, probably asking”: FOC to Betty Boyd Love, April 24, 1951, HB, 24.
91 “We kept trying”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.
91–92 “country bumpkin”: Ibid.
92 “she did write”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 25, 1955, CW, 972.
92 “kept ducks”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GCSU.
92 “Flannery did not want”: Harriet Thorp Hendricks, letter to the author, November 1, 2004.
93 “Connie Howell”: Colonnade, November 9, 1943.
93 “I will not”: Alice Alexander, “The Memory of Milledgeville’s Flannery O’Connor Is Still Green,” Atlanta Journal, March 28, 1979.
93 “Dr. Wynn was a gentleman”: Cash, Flannery