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You get prettier every day, don't you?" Red said, as he spun the stool.
No one called Angela's little girl by her real name. No one could spit it out. Angela had found the name in the family Bible. Apparently, it wanted to stay there.
"She's cute as a Dixie cup," Willie said from the service window.
"Are you my little Dixie cup?" Red asked, giving her nose a tap.
Clapping her hands, the child giggled and squealed.
And just like that, Aubrette Orianna Belle was christened Dixie.
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