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The attention had its perks. There were invitations to tea with curators and a piece in a local magazine that referred to Cornelia as “a living repository of genteel memory.” People began buying mementos from Thomas’s shop in greater numbers, and the bakery sold out of their cinnamon-dusted kouign-amann because tourists had to photograph the street where Cornelia’s house stood. But attention brings with it a higher ledger. Requests to see family papers multiplied; one woman in a linen dress wanted to use the front parlor as a wedding backdrop. The couple from the West Coast asked whether the original wainscoting could be “accentuated.” Everyone wanted some small hold on the house’s authority.

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To the tourists passing through on their way to the Blue Ridge, Cornelia was the personification of "Southern Charm." She was the tilted porch swing, the hand-painted "Bless Your Heart" signs, and the way she could make the word The attention had its perks