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Cornelia set down her tart plate, wiped her hands on her linen apron (which had once been a tablecloth), and said, “Bitty, you know what my mama used to say? ‘Charm isn’t about what’s in your purse. It’s about what’s in your keeping jar.’” She tapped the empty Mason jar she now used as a vase for wildflowers. “It’s what you hold onto that matters. Pecans. Memories. A kind word when no one’s watching.”

That’s what the ladies of Mulberry, Georgia, whispered behind their gloved hands, anyway. They remembered when Cornelia’s daddy, old Senator Finch, owned half the county and a mansion with twelve white pillars. They remembered the garden parties where mint juleps sweated in crystal glasses and the air smelled of magnolia and money. cornelia southern charms

And Delaney did.