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I stood at the foot of her grave, the Bahia grass tickling the back of my knees and a cacophony of summer insects loud in my ears. I hadn’t come to Monroeville looking for her, but I’d found her.

Sook.

Twenty-seven years ago, almost to the sweltering June day, I stood at the foot of another grave, this one not yet ranked. The red clay freshly turned. The Bahia grass.

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The bugs. 

Sarah.

Sook was the elderly cousin of Truman Capote, who spent several years living with his kin in Monroe County, Alabama. While the other relatives worked, young Truman stayed at home with her and their dog, Queenie.

“We were each other’s best friend,” he wrote — this young, lonely boy and this aging, eccentric woman.

Capote recounts their special relationship in “A Christmas Memory.” Mama recommended I read this autobiographical short story while I was researching an article I was writing.

I wonder if Mama knew how much of little Audrey I would see in “Buddy,” Capote’s childhood nickname, ho