So, as I mentioned, we checked into our hotel, the Blockade Runner, in Wrightsville Beach. The hotel was hosting the annual convention of the North Carolina chapter of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and those women were the reason I was there. They'd selected me as the 2009 winner of their annual award for creative writing, the Lucy Bramlette Patterson award. (That's GFWC-NC President Beverly Lassiter on my right). I can't tell you what an honor it is for me to be recognized as a North…
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