“Anni fa era il più bel lago di Whistle stop. D’estate ci venivamo a nuotare e pescare e ci si poteva anche fare un giro in barca, volendo.” Idgie scosse tristemente la testa. “Sapesse quanto mi manca!”
Smokey guardò il prato.
“Come mai non c’è più? Si è prosciugato?”
Lei accese una sigaretta e glie la porse. “Peggio. Un novembre, un enorme stormo di anatre, almeno una
quarantina, andarono a posarsi proprio in mezzo al lago e nel pomeriggio, mentre nuotavano tranquillamente, successe quella cosa strana. La temperatura scese di colpo e l’acqua si ghiacciò. Divenne solida come pietra nel giro di tre secondi. Uno, due, tre. Così”
Smokey la guardò stralunato. “Dice sul serio?”
“Certo!”
“Le anatre saranno morte.”
E’ questo il punto. Non morirono, ma volarono via e portarono con sé il lago. E adesso il nostro lago sarà da qualche parte in Gerogia…”
Lui si girò a guadarla e, quando capì che stava scherzando, raggrinzì gli occhi celesti e cominciò a ridere così forte che gli venne da tossire e lei dovette dargli una botta sulla schiena.

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Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ...

Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies

Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.

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Suddenly being her age seemed great. She didn't have to look perfect. Hooray And think of all the senior discounts she had to look forward to not to mention Social Security Medicare and Medicaid. So what if she was afraid of getting old Big whoopdedoowho wasn't She wasn't alone everybody her age was in the same boat. She was going to relax and just let herself get older. Who cared if she wore twoinch heels instead of 3andahalf inch heels her feet hurt and not only that she was going to have a piec eof cake once in a while and she wasn't going to go anywhere she didn't feel like going anymore either. Bring on the Depends And the bunion pads and the Metamucil. And if she liked pretty music and old movies so what She wasn't hurting anyone.

Hazel had always said "If you're still breathing you're ahead of the game." And she'd been right. Life itself was something to look forward to and so for whatever time she had left she was going to enjoy every minute wrinkles and all. What a concept

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Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

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Don't give up before the miracle happens.

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I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison

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I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

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Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent.

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In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

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I found out I got ringworm from Felix. If it gets in my head, they will have to shave off my hair. I'll be bald just like Eisenhower, and I am a Democrat.

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