#sugarbaker

"I gather from your comments there are a couple of other things you don't know, Marjorie. For example, you probably didn't know that Susanne was the only contestant in Georgia pageant history to sweep every category except Congeniality. And that is not something that the women in my family aspire to anyway. Or that when she walked down the runway in her swimsuit, five contestants quit on the spot. Or that she emerged from the isolation booth to answer the question 'what would you do to prevent war', she spoke so elegantly of patriotism, battlefields, and diamond tiaras, grown men wept. And you probably didn't know, Marjorie, that Susanne was not just any Miss Georgia, she was THE Miss Georgia. She didn't twirl just a baton, that baton was on fire. And when she threw that baton into the air, it flew higher, further, faster than any baton has ever flown before, hitting a transformer and showering the darkened arena with sparks. And when it finally did come down, Marjorie, my sister caught that baton. And twelve THOUSAND people jumped to their feet for sixteen and one half minutes of uninterrupted, thunderous ovation as flames illuminated her tear-stained face. And that, Marjorie, just so you will know, and your children may one day know, is the night the lights went out in Georgia."