As a teenager, I was leaving my purely Southern mother’s house one day with a salutation of “See you later.”
“Okay,” she replied. “Be sweet.”
“Be sweet.” It’s the mandate of mothers across the South when sending their daughters off on a trip or social engagement. Not “be careful,” mind you, but “be sweet.” That’s because to Southern mothers, bei...
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