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Wow! I thought I was the only little girl that watched those Tammy and the Bachelor movies !!! If I could find one on right now , I would be mesmerized all over again . I know I saw them all and that is why I am divorced and single now . I have this idea of romantic idealized love from all of those old movies like that and Gone With the Wind ! Where love is something you always long for but never quite hold onto . Love is free and fun and it almost takes your breath away until you hurt so bad you want to die . Then , you don't die , do you ? That is the part the movies and the books leave out. The in between when you can't feel love anymore and you don't understand why ??? So , I just keep reading in hopes that one book will lead me to a way to heal a heart or find a love that will not end ...
It's been so long since I've seen them, but they must have made an impression. Remember the theme song? Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in loooove?
In my book the boy (can't remember what his name was in the movie) is a real rogue, a playboy who grows up with the help of a strong woman.
Pain from complications of love is a special kind of hurt, wouldn't you agree? Worse than a physical pain, akin to the flu but worse.
Yes, love that song ! I watched the movies with my neighbor as a young teen . Her name was Tammy. She was older than me and I thought she was the greatest! Our Mom's were best friends . We would pile up in her Mom's bed and watch those old movies with popcorn . I was so young. When she married later I was her only maid of honor at 18 years old and it made me feel so special. Yeah ! Love aches much worse than the flu ! You cry and cry until you can't breathe and then gasp and cry again as though life will never be the same again and it is not . Until the next time and it still hurts sometimes even worse , if that is possible , depending on the circumstances . When you said you were writing your next book about Shreveport, you clicked with me again. I am a Air Force Brat ! I was born in the hospital at Barksdale AFB in Shreveport, LA. Lived there the first four years of my childhood. My Mama's home is here in Oxford, MS . She was actually born and lived most of her years in Tula, MS about 15 miles outside of Oxford. We are distant relatives to Larry Brown . Larry is the Southern Grit Writer most famous for JOE, Big Bad Love , and Father and Son, etc... I came here every Summer and then I have attended Ole Miss through three degrees and half my Graduate in English !!! I am an unemployed ENGLISH teacher just now !!! HA!!! Just can't keep me out of school !! Have you read Tom Franklin and his wife Beth Ann Fennelly's last Book A Tillted World about the Flood of 1909 that you have listed to read ? They teach on campus . I suppose you probably already know all of this !!! Well , thanks for responding . I hope to keep in touch . Dawn
I was born Shreveport, too, at the Schumpert Sanitarium (sounds like where you'd go for TB, doesn't it?) I went to school at Northwood High, but I always liked the kids who went to Parkway, which was the high school for the airbase. They were always so friendly and outgoing, probably because they had to be since they moved around so much.
The book about the flood sounds interesting! Natural disasters are the flashpoints for a good many human dramas.
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Wow! I thought I was the only little girl that watched those Tammy and the Bachelor movies !!! If I could find one on right now , I would be mesmerized all over again . I know I saw them all and that is why I am divorced and single now . I have this idea of romantic idealized love from all of those old movies like that and Gone With the Wind ! Where love is something you always long for but never quite hold onto . Love is free and fun and it almost takes your breath away until you hurt so bad you want to die . Then , you don't die , do you ? That is the part the movies and the books leave out. The in between when you can't feel love anymore and you don't understand why ??? So , I just keep reading in hopes that one book will lead me to a way to heal a heart or find a love that will not end ...
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It's been so long since I've seen them, but they must have made an impression. Remember the theme song? Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in loooove? In my book the boy (can't remember what his name was in the movie) is a real rogue, a playboy who grows up with the help of a strong woman.
Pain from complications of love is a special kind of hurt, wouldn't you agree? Worse than a physical pain, akin to the flu but worse.
Yes, love that song ! I watched the movies with my neighbor as a young teen . Her name was Tammy. She was older than me and I thought she was the greatest! Our Mom's were best friends . We would pile up in her Mom's bed and watch those old movies with popcorn . I was so young. When she married later I was her only maid of honor at 18 years old and it made me feel so special. Yeah ! Love aches much worse than the flu ! You cry and cry until you can't breathe and then gasp and cry again as though life will never be the same again and it is not . Until the next time and it still hurts sometimes even worse , if that is possible , depending on the circumstances . When you said you were writing your next book about Shreveport, you clicked with me again. I am a Air Force Brat ! I was born in the hospital at Barksdale AFB in Shreveport, LA. Lived there the first four years of my childhood. My Mama's home is here in Oxford, MS . She was actually born and lived most of her years in Tula, MS about 15 miles outside of Oxford. We are distant relatives to Larry Brown . Larry is the Southern Grit Writer most famous for JOE, Big Bad Love , and Father and Son, etc... I came here every Summer and then I have attended Ole Miss through three degrees and half my Graduate in English !!! I am an unemployed ENGLISH teacher just now !!! HA!!! Just can't keep me out of school !! Have you read Tom Franklin and his wife Beth Ann Fennelly's last Book A Tillted World about the Flood of 1909 that you have listed to read ? They teach on campus . I suppose you probably already know all of this !!! Well , thanks for responding . I hope to keep in touch . Dawn
I was born Shreveport, too, at the Schumpert Sanitarium (sounds like where you'd go for TB, doesn't it?) I went to school at Northwood High, but I always liked the kids who went to Parkway, which was the high school for the airbase. They were always so friendly and outgoing, probably because they had to be since they moved around so much.The book about the flood sounds interesting! Natural disasters are the flashpoints for a good many human dramas.
C
