When I was growing up, there was a box that I was never allowed to open. I knew it to be my mom’s wedding dress and that was pretty much that … until now.
My mom passed away in May of 2012, and her instructions to my sister and I in the last days of her life were to “take me home,” with home being where she grew up as a child on a cotton farm in Cameron, South Carolina. Our cotton mom is interred in Cameron’s Resurrection Lutheran Church Mt. Lebanon Cemetery. The cemetery is actually in a cotton field.
Our reconnection to her family is the basis for the documentary in production, Cotton Tale.
So now as this life chapter draws to a close, our mom’s dress is now on eBay in a bidding war, we know someone will get an extra bit of history to go along with it.
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