OK, you're forgiven. Not like I haven't spoken from the gut, myself, but only once. Only once, I say.
Yeah, her mom. Reputedly the smallest waist in Hollywood, like the character in Gone With The Wind... "smallest waist in..." whatever area in which that took place.
Hubba hubba dubba wubba.
Single point in that book that really stands out for me was the concealed weapon bit. Yankee carpetbagger rides up to the house, enters, gets aggressive, Scarlett pulls a gun out from the folds of her skirt and blasts the man right in the face. She and her wimpy sister (Melanie?) bury him in the yard and clean the carpet.
Been many decades since I read that book, but that incident really stuck in my head and made me think, "even kittens carry concealed weapons."
Terry, 230RN