It’s been 25 years or so since I first stayed at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. Proclaimed as the South’s Grand Hotel, I have since stayed a couple of dozen times, at least.
It was there in an enormous room, almost a suite, that I watched a pre-taped show I had recorded in New York a few days earlier which, at the time, featured renowned journalist Barbara Walters. For my part, I was a wide-eyed, naïve country girl who took a couple of floggings from Walters but managed, somehow, to hold my own.
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