Renowned Southern writer Doris Betts was lunching in Fearrington's Granary restaurant recently when she observed this touching struggle between a mother and her adult daughter. Published in The News and Observer, November 4, 2007.
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Slender Threads: Blog on 'What If's' of History
- 1. 'What If's' Of History: Why Should You Care? A Waste of Time?
- 1957: Nixon Almost Became President
- 1960 Election: History Turned On Minuscule Decisions
- 1963-64: For Want of Rain On One Afternoon, The 1960s Could Have Turned Out Far Differently
- 1968: What If Robert Kennedy Had Not Entered Hotel Kitchen After Victory Speech?
- 1972-74: What If Night Watchman Hadn't Caught Watergate Burglars? Might Nixon Be Viewed As A Good President? What If Muskie Hadn't Tripped From Nixon's Dirty Tricks?
- 1976: Reagan Lost Nomination By 117 Delegate Votes. What If He Or Ford Had Won That Year?
- 1976: What if Reagan Had Won? He Probably Would Have Lost Badly in 1980.
- 1979-80: If Only Guards At Iranian Embassy Had Threatened Deadly Force, Carter Might Have Been Re-Elected
- 1980: 'The Made for TV Election' Explodes Myth of Liberal Media Bias
- 1984 and 1987-88: If Only Gary Hart Hadn't Boarded the 'Monkey Business'
- 1988: What If Michael Dukakis Won?
- 1991: What If...No Gulf War to Liberate Kuwait? No Invasion of Iraq in 2003?
- 1992-1998: What If Clinton Sex Scandals Hit All At Once? He Would Have Been a Goner
- What Happened Didn't Have to Happen...Or Did It?
- 2001: Dispelling Four Popular Myths About the Iraq War
- 2001: Would Bill Clinton Or Al Gore Have Invaded Iraq After 9/11? Quite Possibly
- Alternative History Hangout Offers Some Plausible, Many Implausible Stories
- Did Cleopatra's Nose, Henry the VIII's Libido, Richard III's Horse and Your Ancestors' Luck Make Crucial Historical Differences?
- Do Great Men and Women Shape History? Or Are We Slaves to Fate, Random Chaos, Divine Providence?
- Draft of Ebook on 'What If's' of American Election History, from 1960-1992
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