Carolina QuotesI remember my father so well. He was tall and lean with soft black hair. A cleft in his chin and the green eyes I inherited. But there was a sparkle in those eyes and a smile on his lips. He treated life as it came, and when the work on the farm was going well, he asked for nothing more.
Ava Gardner
Carolinian
Source
Ava: My Story (Bantam, 1990), her autobiography; excerpted by the Ava Gardner Museum, Smithfield, North Carolina
- form
- book
- work
- Ava: My Story
- year
- 1990
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“I remember my father so well. He was tall and lean with soft…” Ava Gardner. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-57145F3190. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/57145f3190
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