We got married in a fever....hotter than a pepper sprout...

[stevebody]

As a Southerner born and raised, it just breaks my freakin' heart...

Yeah, June had that particular brand of soul that comes from growing up the hard way and coming to appreciate the blessings you receive. Taming the Man in Black? Piece of cake for a Southern woman with a backbone and a sense of who she is. The South, as any Southern boy knows, is a matriarchy and, as I once read in a Greensboro paper, "In our house, Dad makes the big decisions, like whether we recognize Red China and what we think about the deficit, and Mom handles the little stuff, like raising us and putting food on the table."

My grandmother and June Carter would have been fast friends, both primary examples of what a fully-realized human being really is about.