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Editor’s Note, this post originally appeared on “Not for Nothing Y’all” by the lovely Brittney Vasina.

If you had asked me to point out Atlanta on a map before I moved here from New York, I’m not sure I could do it. I had never really heard of the city. I guess I probably just knew it was in the South – and at that point, to me I believe the South was just simply a place where people farmed…to me it was a place that probably did not have electricity or internet. I’d never been, and was quite content with that fact. You can imagine the horror I felt when my parents told my sister and I that we were moving to Georgia…”Why would we do that?”

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Are you stocking up on books for the summer? We’ve got your new beach read – The Idea of Him by Holly Peterson. She’s the author of The N.Y. Times best-seller The Manny, kickass journalist, mom extraordinaire, and even an avid surfer.

I recently caught up with Miss Holly at the fabulous W Atlanta-Midotwn where we sipped “Idea-tinis” and talked about her writing, love life, and The Idea of Him. Her latest novel “explores the dangers of falling for the idea of a person, and why facing reality is more liberating than we ever dreamed it could be.”
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The lovely ladies at The Southern Women Channel have whipped up another video masterpiece with The Dixie Download. After their first video, Sh&t Southern Women Say, went viral with more than 5 million hits on YouTube, the former Southern girls who now reside in L.A. have started a regular YouTube series. My personal favorite lines from their latest installment include “What’s a Southern man’s idea of loading the dishwasher?” all of the “Dixie Dixtionary”, plus this joke “What’s smaller than a teeny weeny ant?”
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“Hey, soldier boy!” With those three, flirtatious words, a love story was born.

My namesake and grandmother, Mama Ruth, had met her Norman on a double date with her best friend one hot Georgia summer day in the mid-1950s – only, he wasn’t her date. A few weeks later, when nothing had developed further from their respective dates, Mama Ruth was sitting in a car with her girlfriends at the drive-through. Over giggles and the radio, she turned and saw a tall man in uniform walking by. “That’s Norman,” she told her friends. “Oh, he is so handsome, Ruth,” they remarked. So she rolled down the window and yelled out those three, unforgettable words with a sweet, melodic voice, one that still fills the room with sugar when she tells the story today. He smiled, walked over to the car, leaned over to her window and said, “Well hey there, Miss Ruth.”

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