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To think about happiness? I was happy even...

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To think about happiness? I was happy even before Cat cameI was happy from the day I went to Jamie's houseNot like now, I didn't dream anybody could ever feel as happy as I do every time I look at Cat, every time I hold her, or feed herBut I was happy, all the same, because the O 'Haras took me just the way I wasThey never expected me to be just like them, they never made me feel I had to change, they never made me feel I was wrong Even when I was wrongI had no call to expect Kathleen to do my hair and mend my clothes and make my bedI was putting on airs With people who never did anything so tacky as put on airs themselves But they never said, chanel purse for cheap "Oh, stop putting on airs, Scarlett No, they just let me do what I was doing and accepted me, airs and allI was awful wrong about Daniel and all moving to BallyharaI was trying to make them be a credit to meI wanted them to live in grand houses and be grand farmers with lots of land and hired hands to do most of the workI wanted to change themI never wondered what they wantedI didn't take them just the way they were Oh, I'm never going to do that to Cat I'm never going to make her different from what she isI'm always going to love her like I do now-with my whole heart, no matter what Mother never loved me like I love CatOr Suellen or balenciaga bag amethyst Carreen, either She wanted me to be different from me, she wanted me to be just like herAll of us, that's what she wanted from all three 'of usScarlett recoiled from what was in her headShe'd always believed her mother was perfectIt was unthinkable that Ellen O 'Hara could ever be wrong about anything But the thought would not go awayIt returned again and again when she was unprepared to shut it outIt returned in different guises, with different embellishmentsIt would not leave her aloneBeing a lady like her isn't the only way to beIt isn't even always the best way to beNot if it doesn't make you happy Happy is the best way to be because then you can let other people chanel watch black . be happy, tooShe was kind and patient and caringfor us children, for Pa, for the darkiesI wish you could have felt the way I feel now, I wish you could have been happyWhat was it Grandfather had said? That his daughter Ellen had married Gerald O 'Hara to run away from a disappointment in loveWas that why she was never happy? Was she pining over someone she couldn't have the way I pined over Ashley? The way I pine now over Rhett when I can't help it What a waste! What a horrible, senseless wasteWhen happiness was so wonderful, how could anyone cling to a love that made them unhappy? Scarlett vowed that she wouldn't do itShe knew what it was to chanel purses and handbags be happy, and she would not ruin itShe caught her sleeping baby up in her arms and hugged herCat woke and waved her helpless hands in protest"Oh, Kitty Cat, I'm sorryI just had to hug you some They were all wrong! The idea was so explosive that it woke Scarlett from a sound sleepThey were wrong! All of them-the people who cut me dead in Atlanta, Aunt Eulalie and Aunt Pauline, and just about everybody in CharlestonThey wanted me to be just like them, and because I'm not, they disapproved of me, made me feel like there was something terribly wrong with me, made me think I was a bad person, that I deserved to be looked down on was as terrible as all louis vuitton whisper bag th


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