Yesterdays Magnolia

<B>Yesterday's Magnolia</B> by Betty J Vaughn<br><br>Jo envies Margo and Maurice for their ready charm looks wealth glamour and exciting lives never realizing that it is she who is envied for a life that contains the things that they themselves long for and have not attained.<br><br>It's a shame to have so damned much and yet so little. An eastern North Carolina farmer's daughter Margot streaks like a comet into the life style of the rich and famous. Her beauty and exuberant zestful personality gain her entrance to boardrooms the White House a corporate jet stocked with Cristal champagne and caviar a villa in Italy and marriage to one of the world's most powerful men. Maurice the spurned suitor seeks friendship and comfort from Margot's sister Jo a quiet bookish art history teacher. Jo envies them both for their ready charm looks wealth glamour and exciting lives never realizing that it is she who is envied for a life that contains the things that they themselves have not attained. Like the comets they so resemble both Margot and Maurice are consumed by the friction of life leaving Jo to remember the magic moments they brought to a more conventional path.