On Saturday, July 29, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Lee Murrah wrote:   
   > I just heard some fascinating information on and A&E program on love in the   
   > Old South.   
   >   
   > Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, had two cousins who some   
   > think were models for characters in her novel.  The cousins were in love,   
   > but as first cousins they could not marry.  The female cousin became a nun   
   > and took the name Sister Melanie.  The male cousin went west and became   
   > "Doc" Holliday.  Ashley Wilkes was said to have had some of his   
   > characteristics.   
   >   
   > Has anyone else heard this story?  Is it a fact that Doc was Margaret   
   > Mitchell's cousin?   
      
   Yes and Berrien Kinard Upshaw my cousin was Rhett he was Margaret's first   
   husband   
      
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