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@@@@@Pansy's right about that partEverybody I know in Savannah is oldGrandfather, Aunt Eulalie, Aunt Pauline, all their friendsAnd Pa's brothers are the oldest of allI'll just say hello and let them give me a nasty dry old man's kiss on the cheek and buy my rosary and leave There's no real call to see their wivesIf they cared about seeing me, they would have done something about keeping up all these years Why, for all they know I could be dead and buried and not so much as a condolence note to my husband and childrenA mighty tacky way to treat a blood relative, I call itMaybe I'll just forget about going to see any of them at allThey don't deserve any visits from me after the way they neglected me, she thought, ignoring the letters from Savannah that she'd never answered, until finally they stopped coming She was ready to consign her father's brothers and their wives permanently to oblivion in the recesses of her mind nowShe was fixed on two things, getting control of Tara and getting the upper hand with RhettNever mind that the two were contradictory goals, she'd find a way to have bothAnd they demanded all the thinking she had time for I'm not going to go trailing around looking for that musty old store, Scarlett decided I've got to track down the Mother Superior and the BishopOh, I do wish I hadn't left those beads in CharlestonShe looked quickly along the storefronts on the other side of Broughton Street, Savannah's place to shopSurely there must be a jeweler somewhere close byThe bold gilt letters that spelled out 0'HARA stretched across the wall above five gleaming windows almost directly oppositeMy, they've come up in the world since I was here last, Scarlett thoughtThat doesn't look musty at all"Come on," she said to Pansy, and she plunged into the tangled traffic of wagons, buggies, and pushcarts that filled the busy streetThe 0 'Hara store smelled of fresh paint, not long-settled dust