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- Y'all, I have decided that I'm gonna make
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a conscientious effort, to start sharing with y'all
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things that I really love to do in my free time.
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And one of 'em, oh my gosh.
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It started years ago with my Aunt Peggy
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and Kari, when she was a little bitty girl,
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she'd spend every Friday night with me.
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And Aunt Peggy and I loved to go to yard sales.
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We loved it!
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And so Kari would wake up on Saturday morning
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and she'd say, "Paula, we going ard selling?"
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Yes and I'll give you your quarter
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and you can buy whatever you want,
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whatever you can get for that quarter.
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Well a friend of mine, gosh, we've been friends
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now for right at 30 years.
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We're in a beautiful neighborhood here in Savannah
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and her parents passed away.
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So I know.
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Sherry! She just pulled up.
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It is so good to see you.
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- It is wonderful to see you, as well.
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- And I'm so sorry that you have lost your parents.
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- [Sherry] It's tough.
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- It is tough, honey.
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It's been 40 years since I experienced that,
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or maybe 50. - It is hard,
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it is so hard. - It was in 1966,
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my first experience with a parent.
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But anyway, I was just telling everybody,
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I adore, I adore yard sales.
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What's the other word I'm looking for?
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- Estate sales. - Estate sales, yeah.
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So the sale starts tomorrow, but Sherry was kind enough
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to let us come in and just look.
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We can't buy, but we can look.
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- And it's fun to look.
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- It is fun to look. - It is.
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- [Cameraman] And this is called
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the Mint Green Tag Sale Company you chose to use.
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- Yes, let me tell you.
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- [Paula] How did you find find them?
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- In Savannah, Georgia.
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- Oh, they're here?
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They're a local company? - Here in Savannah.
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And you know, Savannah's a big small town.
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- It is.
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- And my husband and I just moved to Idaho a year ago.
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And about that time, we were reaching out
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to estate sale companies.
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And my brother, Michael, said well, I found one.
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And it responded, not a lot of 'em
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would respond for whatever reason.
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She said so let's interview him.
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So we did. - Uh-huh.
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- And Dawn, the wife, Dawn Kuchi,
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she said, we were talking, just conversation.
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I said, yeah, we just moved to Hope.
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She says, well, I live in Hope.
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And I said, well, I live on Central Avenue.
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She says, I live on Central Avenue.
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- No! - And I said
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okay, where do you live?
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Literally across the street.
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- No, no. - Yes, yes.
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- So you hadn't gotten to know any of your neighbors yet?
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- No, not at that point.
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So it was so fun. What a small world.
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But they have done beautiful job.
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So, again, Mint Green has done
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such a beautiful job organizing things.
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- Wow. - And mom loved-
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- Look at all these cookbooks. - cookbooks.
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- I know it. - She had rather
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read a cookbook than a novel.
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- [Paula] A novel, me too.
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And I read 'em like they're a novel.
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- Yeah, and we'd ask her mom,
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why are you reading so many cookbooks?
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And she says, well, you never know
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how many different ways to make the same dish.
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- [Paula] That's exactly right.
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- And she said, and the stories that they put
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in these cookbooks are so interesting.
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And, so we have a lot of Paula Deen cookbooks around here.
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- [Paula] Oh my goodness.
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- Carl Schumacher, my ex-husband,
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you know? - He is still
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my CPA to this day. - Yes he is.
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And my mom was such a fan of yours,
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that you always gave her one of your cookbooks.
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- Oh.
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- So we have lots of Paula Deen.
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But there is some that, the one that,
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I meant to pull it out for you,
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that was really, really kind of neat.
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- I'm seeing if I can see.
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- Here's an old one, A Betty Crocker, Cookin' Easy.
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- I love-
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- Isn't that sweet? - I love these kind
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of cookbooks from from like appliances
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and... - Yes, yes.
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- Things like this.
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- And you know how they did their cookbooks
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back then, the you know two-one.
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- [Paula] Yes, yes.
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I love it. - Didn't use
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a lot of color back then.
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When I got married, I had one baby shower,
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I was 18 years old and nobody wanted me to do it.
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So hence, I only had one shower.
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And I got one cookbook and it's my Better Homes and Garden.
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- Isn't that something?
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- And it sits in a reverent place in my kitchen.
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I adore that book.
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So if I got it at 18, I've had it how many years was that?
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I'm not real good at math.
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But you're not so good at math either.
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- Who wants to count? - I'm 77 now.
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- No way!
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- [Paula] Yes.
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- Well you're looking (indistinct).
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- And I got it at 18.
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Well, thank you honey.
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High mileage. - I said good cooking
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and good living.
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Look at this one, from the Christian Church.
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- [Paula] Oh, and the church books.
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- One of the church books.
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What's the date of this one? - are so good.
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It doesn't say right there.
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Yeah, there it does.
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1960, is that a eight?
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- [Sherry] Now you're gonna make me put my glasses on.
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- I could never do that Sherry without
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- Yeah. - my glasses.
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- Just- - Church cookbook
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are incredible,
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- They are, they are. - because I've always been
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one of those kinda cooks, those kind of girls
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that I love what women do at home.
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I don't care too much for that Nouve
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sea hollow. - Tofu stuck in everything.
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- Yeah, let's see how complicated we can make this
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and see how many ingredients we can put in it
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that you can't pronounce. - That's right.
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Leave out the tofu.
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- Yes.
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Uh-oh. Look, look what I see.
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- [Sherry] I tell you, there's Paula Deen everywhere.
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- I love it. - It's kinda like
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an Easter egg hunt, Paula.
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There's even Paula under here,
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this here. - I know. Oh my gosh.
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Let me look over here.
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- [Sherry] She did, and she was a great cook,
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she really was.
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- [Paula] Oh my gosh, look.
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- [Sherry] And my grandma, her mother, woo.
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- [Paula] Oh no, that's Damon Fowler's book.
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And Mary Max Cafe. - Oh yours is in there.
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- [Paula] Yes, I see it.
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And Magnolia, who is that?
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I dunno that person.
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- [Sherry] That's one of your first ones.
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- [Paula] Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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That's the original.
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- [Sherry] Yes it is.
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- [Paula] Ooh, cooking with Coca-Cola.
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I thought that's great.
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Yes.
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I signed this,
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- Yes you did. - in July of '97.
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And I'm so glad that at the time
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I was not asked to personalize it
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because, oh look, she's got a note by the banana pudding
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and the sweet potato casserole.
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- Oh the banana pudding, of course
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you have to put a note by the banana puddin'.
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That's the best stuff ever.
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- Oh, that's just wonderful.
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That makes me so happy.
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- Well, it makes us happy that you wanted to film here
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because mom was...
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- I think this is just wonderful,
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because I get so involved in filming
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in my kitchen that I don't-
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- [Sherry] Well it's fun to go to other peoples'.
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- [Paula] It is so much fun.
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- [Sherry] It is.
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- [Paula] Now where, that was where y'all ate?
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- We've had so many Thanksgiving, birthday
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dinners right here. - Right there?
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- This is where all the stories get told.
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- Look at all the books over there.
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I bet that's more cookbooks.
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I see my cookbooks.
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- [Sherry] You see another one over there?
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- [Paula] Uh-huh, I think.
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- [Sherry] There's one, you can see right there.
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- The Lady and Sons two.
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- [Cameraman] Two of them on the end.
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- Oh, okay. - Yeah these two
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on the end, hard backs. - Oh, here's another one.
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- [Paula] And Sherry, the celebrates book,
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you have one of those, it's the next to the end.
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- [Cameraman] The one with the orange
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binding. - Right there.
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The orange. - This way?
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- Nope, this way. - Uh-uh.
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- Right there, the orange. - This one?
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- [Paula] Uh-huh.
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Is that celebrates?
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- Yes. - I love that book.
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If you don't have that at home,
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you may wanna consider keeping it,
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because I don't think it's any longer in print.
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- [Sherry] Is that right?
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Well, this was- - But-
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- [Sherry] This one was given by my daughter.
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- Oh, wonderful.
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- Yep, I love it.
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- Oh, even Michael signed it.
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- Michael signed it, yep.
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- All right now I want to see if y'all have
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this book. - There's
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the double set there.
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- Yep, yep.
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All right, let's see.
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The one I'm lookin' for.
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- [Sherry] Well there's more, if it's not here.
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- I do want you to keep it,
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because it's no longer in print.
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And that's Kitchen Classics.
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The Lady and Sons' Kitchen Classics.
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- [Sherry] Well let's keep an eye out
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for it. - Yes, yes.
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That was, that's probably my favorite.
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That's definitely my favorite one of the first books.
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Okay. Oh, look at here.
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Look, Eddie.
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Country cookin' makes ya good lookin'.
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Bobby signed it, Jamie signed it, and I signed it.
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We didn't put the, wait Jamie did, 2005.
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Right, and let's see this one.
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This one didn't get signed.
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Southern Bells ring louder.
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We prove that, don't we, Sherry?
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- [Sherry] Oh yes.
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There's nothing wrong with being heard.
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- No. No, no, no.
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How many days is your sale going on?
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- Just two.
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Tomorrow from 10 to-
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- [Paula] Are you gonna be here?
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- Oh heavens no.
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- I was gonna say honey,
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I wouldn't come near this place.
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- No, this is, it's been tough.
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You know, these are things that mom and dad loved dearly
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and- - Yes, it's best that you
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not see 'em walk out the door.
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- [Sherry] They told me a funny story, when I told them
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that there's just no way I can be here.
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And they said yeah, one estate sale,
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they had a niece or a cousin or someone
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sat on the couch and cried the entire time.
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- No! - Well that would be me.
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- [Paula] I know. I know it's hard.
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- [Sherry] So now I just hope these treasures
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that have been loved for so long
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be loved by someone else. - I hope so too.
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I hope so too,
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because that makes it easier.
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- [Cameraman] She loved carousels.
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- She loved everything- - She did love carousels.
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- Yes, she loved (indistinct).
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- [Paula] And Nancy Hillis, The Vamp of Savannah.
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She was one of the main characters
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in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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And she and Joe, Joe played the piano and Nancy sang.
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And they opened, what was the name
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of the place that they opened?
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- [Sherry] Ah, was it Hard, yep-
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- Hard Hearted Hannahs. - Hard Hearted Hannahs.
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(pages rustle)
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- And you know, all the characters are gone.
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All of 'em are gone.
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Oh my gosh. They're so cute.
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So cute.
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And you know, I love a snow globe.
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I just love 'em.
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But oh my gosh, everything is so pretty!
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- [Sherry] Thank you.
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- And I know you wish you could take all of it home,
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but then you'd have to move outta your house, wouldn't you?
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- [Sherry] I'd definitely have to get a bigger house.
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But we took pictures and we've gone through
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and we, you know, we've cried.
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My siblings and I have laughed together
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and cried together.
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- [Paula] But hopefully y'all have taken out some things,
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- We have. - just for y'all.
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- One of the fun things was
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when we were pulling things out of the attic,
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there was a box of all kinds of stuff.
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And mom had saved my first grade dress.
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- No!
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- And, it was amongst all this stuff,
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and it was-
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- Pristine?
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- Yeah.
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I don't know how, but it was.
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But that was kind of cool.
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You know, that was the dress I wore
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on my first day of school, and so-
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- Sp please have it framed.
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- I do have it, I will frame it.
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- My decorator, one day I was not home,
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I think I was on the road working.
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And she was going through my drawers
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and she found my old cheerleading outfit.
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And she framed it. - So you really were
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a cheerleader? - Yes.
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I mean I got the proof.
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It's hanging, it's a big one. - Aw.
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- And it's hanging in our house right now-
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- That's you, that's who
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you are. - Goin' up our stairs.
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- That's part of who we are.
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- Yes, yes.
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- And she saved her majorette costume.
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- Oh. - I remember,
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we took my sister out to dance
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at Marilyn (Indistinct's) dance studio.
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And that's a big part of our growing up.
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And Marilyn always had the students
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wear red sequin costumes.
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And it was perfect,
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'cause we always marched in the Christmas parade.
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You know, my baton then was
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this big. - About that big.
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- And so I found my very first majorette costume
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and it's this big. - Okay,
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I was gonna ask you.
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Now I'm older than you, but I was six years,
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I think I turned, yeah I turned six years old
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and Bubba was not born yet.
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I was seven years older than Bubba.
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And it was the best Christmas.
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And there was a doll that I just wanted so badly.
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- Awe. - The Mary
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Heartline majorette doll.
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- Ah. - Did you ever have one?
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- I did not have one.
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- Oh, that's 'cause you was too young.
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- But, also pulling stuff out of the attic,
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in a big box, were Madame Alexander dolls.
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- No!
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- And my sister and I had no idea
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what happened to those dolls,
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because the house we grew up in
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and that- - Were they in
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the polka dot boxes?
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- Originally, but we didn't keep 'em in the boxes.
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But they have just a little bit
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of discoloring under the little skirts,
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underneath the slips underneath.
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- I wish your mom had kept them in their original boxes.
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- I know. We didn't know to do that.
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But it was so funny finding those,
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because I remember my mom said
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all right, Santa brought you a Madame Alexander.
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And you can put it on your dresser
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but you can't touch it. - Can't play with it.
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Can't play with it, can't play-
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- Like what good is this,
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if I can't touch it? (Paula laughs)
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- Oh my gosh. - But now,
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you know, we found all these dolls and-
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- Did you keep some of them?
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- I brought all the dolls home.
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- Good, good. - I don't know
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what I'm gonna do with them.
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- I know it.
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You know my Aunt Peggy, you know my Aunt Peggy?
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- Yes, oh I love Aunt Peggy.
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- And uncle, thank you, 94 and still kicking.
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- Isn't that wonderful?
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- Yes.
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She and my Uncle George own the toy house,
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- Okay. - in Albany.
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And it was before Kmart and Walmart
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and all the big box stores-
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- Yes, yes. - that put the little men
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out of business.
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But Madam Alexandra dolls was really big.
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You could always come there and find it.
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And I think Aunt Peggy might still have some stashed.
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- I hope she does.
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- But I'm so glad
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that y'all opted to keep those.
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- And the thing that I noticed was
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the stitching is still perfect.
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The thread hasn't even rotted.
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I mean, it's amazing.
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- Well they were quality dolls.
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- My dolls are 55 years old.
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So, I was telling the story earlier how we found Mint Green.
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- Right, right. - And it was a lucky find.
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- And these two ladies are Mint Green.
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- That's right.
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- And your husband,
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- Yes, Marshall. - Marshall.
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- That's right. - It's a family business.
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- Yeah. - So how long
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have you had Mint Green?
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- We have owned it for five years,
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and we worked with the people that owned it before us
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for about four years before they sold it
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to us. - Well I think
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this is a much needed occupation because this is hard work.
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I don't know how many yard sales I've ever had
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and Lord knows I can't number how many I've been to.
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But this is hard work. - Well you see
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how organized is it.
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- Yes. - It's beautiful.
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- This is hard work. So my hats off to y'all.
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And if you live in the Savannah area y'all
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check out Mint Green.
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We'll put a link on this-
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- Great, thank you so much. - video.
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- [Cameraman] Yeah 'cause you have a sale
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almost every weekend. - Yes,
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different areas in Savannah.
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- Yeah we're (indistinct).
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- [Paula] Oh my goodness, that will be another good one.
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- But this one is quite an unusual,
16:28
special one. - This one has got
16:29
a lot of attention already.
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- It really is. - As you can tell.
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- We had someone come to wait outside.
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She said is it okay if I wait 24 hours before?
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And I was like you're more than welcome to.
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So they're very excited. - Eddie
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used be in this business, before he and-
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- Got to you. - I adopted him and-
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- [Cameraman] About 10 years ago.
16:48
I used to do this. This was my weekend thing to do.
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- [Paula] So Eddie said there's gonna be people
16:52
already parked out at the apartment.
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- Well, I can honestly say from a family member perspective,
16:58
and I know my brother Michael and my sister Dickie
17:00
would definitely agree, as we were
17:03
saying earlier, going through everything
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and pulling out the doors,
17:07
and I know I went through that drawer
17:09
and look, there's something else.
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And things just kept multiplying
17:12
and growing and more and more.
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And it was chaotic in here.
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My brother said, my nickname is Toots,
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but Toots, that place is-
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- [Paula] Did you do a lot of tootin'
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when you were little, Sherry?
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- Well actually that's the shorter version
17:26
of the original nickname he gave me,
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which was tootsie roller.
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- Tootsie roller. - 'Cause I loved
17:32
tootsie rolls when I was a little kid.
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- Oh. - I can understand that.
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- The toots.
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- And then it went to Tootsie,
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now it's lovingly Toots.
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(Paula laughs)
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This is Toots.
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That house is a disaster.
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- I love that. - So it is chaos,
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no worries. - I love that.
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- Mint Green is gonna save the day.
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- I love that story,
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Sherry. - They have saved the day.
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- I wanna wish y'all luck.
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- Thank you so much. - And I wanna thank
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all three of y'all for letting us in
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and doing this filming,
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because I'm trying to take people
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out my kitchen for things that I really love to do.
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- Yeah. - And this here
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is one of 'em. - Well awesome.
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- I can truthfully say, though, I probably won't be
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able to get back in tomorrow, but today has been wonderful.
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So, well this will already happen by the time this airs.
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So there's no good reason for me
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to invite everybody to something
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that's gonna be gone in three weeks.
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- That's right.
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- [Cameraman] No, but check out their website.
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- Yes, yes, yes. - Do check out the website.
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- Every weekend. - 'Cause we are busy folks.
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- Yes. - Thank you so much.
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- Thank you. - And I thank y'all.
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Y'all add a lot of value to our town.
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- Absolutely.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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