With razor wit and perfect Steel Magnolia poise, Miss Julia speaks her mind indeed - about a robbery, a kidnapping, and all the other disgraceful goings-on that are precipitated by her husband's death. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small community finds herself in the center of an unseemly scandal - and the guardian of a wan nine-year-old whose mere presence will turn her life upside down. But this perfectly practiced composure is quickly reduced when Hazel Marie unceremoniously announces her intentions: the child is Wesley Lloyd's bastard son and, since the man left her penniless, she's leaving little Lloyd in Miss Julia's care. Miss Julia, recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow. The second, so astonishing thereupon hangs this wonderful and witty tale. The first, as befits a gentleman of means, is the whole of his sizeable estate. When Wesley Lloyd Springer passed away, he left his proper Southern wife two legacies.
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