![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She fell in love with the land and its history, an admiration reflected in her connection to southern stories. While my mom is a Yankee through and through, she marr ied a southerner and liv ed in Tennessee for several years. She said it was a film about fierce southern women working together to beat the odds and succeeding - something she knew a lot about. I must have been around 13 years old the first time my mom showed me the film Fried Green Tomatoes. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.” ―Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “It’s funny, most people can be around someone, and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. ![]()
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