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  1. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said.
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  2. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    Chigarid. The man who
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  3. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    lay loooo-yah! A-layyyy-loo yah!" He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto."
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  4. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    We're not at all like the rest of Georgia. We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, 'What's your business?' In Macon they ask, 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is 'What would you like to drink?
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  5. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    According to the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, more than 8 percent of Savannah's adults were "known alcoholics,
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  6. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    saying, I originally left the door unlocked as a matter of convenience. But pretty soon I realized that whenever the doorbell did ring, it was someone I didn't know. So the bell became a signal that a stranger was at the door. I've learned never to answer it myself when that happens, because it's likely to be a deputy sheriff wanting to serve me with some kind of paper, and of course I don't need to be home for that.
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  7. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    Savannah was invariably gracious to strangers, but it was immune to their charms. It wanted nothing so much as to be left alone. Time
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  8. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    How do you do that?" I asked. "What do witches eat?" "Witches loves pork meat," she said. "They loves rice and potatoes. They loves black-eyed peas and cornbread. Lima beans, too, and collard greens and cabbage, all cooked in pork fat. Witches is old folks, most of them. They don't care none for low-cal. You pile that food on a paper plate, stick a plastic fork in it, and set it down by the side of a tree. And that feeds the witches." The
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  9. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    Whitney had carefully kept the cotton gin under wraps while he applied for a patent, but he made a tactical error when he allowed women to have a look at it,
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  10. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music.
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  11. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    If you did not like the show, honey, my name is Nancy Reagan and go fuck yourself." Chablis
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  12. John Berendt _ Midnight In The Garden Of Good

    more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.
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