This is the one that I am probably going to write next. Paris, Ill. Little farm town. A 45 year old lady gets off a Greyhound bus, dressed like this and her heels click on the worn out 50 year old sidewalks. Daydee (Diedra) has been a call girl and later a paid mistress in New Orleans most of her life. The last man she was involved with is in prison and her mother has just died, leaving everything to her. She has an over the hill face now. Only sixty year olds find her slightly attractive. Anyhow, she's inherited a farm and some buildings and a privately owned cemetery in this little town. The three men that try to help her, went to high school with her. They have a secret and guilt associated with her, that she doesn't even remember, but they do. She changes with trying to make a go of things here. Her father, who she barely remembers, and disappeared when she was 10, turns out to be alive and is a crazy street person who has only just returned himself and is discovered living in the bushes outside of town. She's writing letters to her guy in prison. Definitely Faulkner in Illinois. I need the bottom of the bottom for her - that's probably the big piece missing. It occurred to me that maybe she's pregnant and doesn't realize it.
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