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stamp of cool on Mitchell’s impressive resume, he will also go down in Georgia lore as the last governor to settle a score by duel. He also signed the bill that outlawed dueling in Georgia, so it’s fairly clear who won that debate. When Miss Caroline talks about her great-great granddaddy,


she speaks of a kindred spirit. Though a hundred years separated their time on earth, both lived lives filled to the brim. Miss Caro- line still happily sups from hers. She cradles a delicate children’s doll, dressed in a gorgeous


white gown handcrafted by her mother. “These were the clothes my parents put me in after I was born. It was July 28th, 1909.” She straightens the folds of the gown. “My daddy, John, and my mother, Sarah, in that big green house just across from where the Medical Center is today.” And history unfolds again. Here are some simple facts that will put her amazing life in


context: William Taft was President when she was born; she has seen 17 presidents since then. Tere were only roughly 8,000 cars on the road in 1909; there were only 144 miles of paved roads to ride. And to bring it home, Miss Caroline has been on the Columbus scene nine years longer than Fort Benning. But she doesn’t speak of her youth as though it belongs to a


bygone world of sepia-toned photos; and her stories don’t require translations to be understood in our busier, more distracted age of modernity. There is, after all, a timelessness to childhood, and when she relates hers, it’s not so hard to see the little girl she once was. During her childhood in Columbus, she learned the joy of


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