It's all the humidity, clearly

"The biggest myth about Southern women is that we are frail types - fainting on our sofas ... nobody where I grew up acted like that. We were about as frail as coal trucks."

Lee Smith, fantastic Applachian author*
who knows a thing or two about life in the South

*She wrote one of my all-time favorite  books, The Last Girls, about a group of college friends who took a Huck Finn-inspired journey twice down the Mississippi - once on a raft they made themselves [as pictured above] and again years later.

[Image via: Lee Smith's website]

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