Anne M. Plant: Making Peace with Rednecks

Published: August 27, 2007, 1:26 pm

Anne M. Plant is a recent widow with two young daughters, 13 and 8, who traded their E! entourage lifestyle in Los Angeles for stability and structure in a provincial town on the Virginian peninsula. Now here's the true unfolding story of how Anne's sister and Army officer brother-in-law opened up their home. They have three children of their own; a girl, 13, a boy who's 10 and Baby Binkles, who is one. Taking in Anne and her two makes eight! The melding together of these two families is Operation Brady Bunch and it is high adventure. Peacemaking with rednecks in Virginia takes as much fortitude and finesse as arbitration between sharks in Los Angeles. Having recently moved from the "left" coast to the right, I was unschooled in the fighting ways of the rednecks. An incident involving my nephew taught me that the antics of the two coasts may be different, but the motives for attack and strategies for accord remain fundamentally the same. Someone is hurt, someone strikes

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