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I still had it in my mind to go to Hollywood. Can you imagine a kid of 15 getting married? It lasted six months, and then I just left one day. His sister worked with me at the hosiery mill. I was 15, and I married this shoe salesman from Columbus. 'Anyway, things were still bad at home, and so finally I really did get married. I heard once that he was in Florida, but I don't know for sure. The marriage was annulled after 24 hours, and I went back home. See, in Georgia, after you got married your parents lost their legal hold on you.' We got the bright idea we ought to get married. I got a job as a waitress and met this marine who came into the restaurant all the time. 'It seemed that if I did go back, I'd never get away again. My parents were trying to make me come back home. But I could hardly support myself I was a kid, I didn't know the first thing about handling money. I went to Columbus and got a job as an inspector for the Archer Hosiery Co.

I imagine there were a lot of little girls in Georgia with the same crazy idea.

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I grew up in Eastman, Ga., and I'd never been out of the state in my life, but I had this idea I could save my money and go to Hollywood and become a movie star.' 'But where I actually wound up was in Columbus, Georgia. I wanted to get away, and naturally I dreamed about Hollywood. But I had a stepfather, the meanest man in the world. 'I mean, crazy things like that helped out at home. Long after I was too old to believe such things, I still pretended I did, because they were important to me.

'Well, I used to go to the movies, and I'd tell myself the stars were backstage, right behind the screen, and someday I'd meet them.' She smiled.

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