What Emma Jean Really Done

Emma Jean did go back to her room at the Roosevelt Hotel and she did do her show that night. A report in the paper said it was soulful and poignant (quote from paper.) But the next morning she boarded a north bound train and a couple of hours later she were standing on the platform in front of the Harper depot. Nobody were there to meet her 'cause nobody knowed she were coming. Besides nobody would be able to tell who she were 'cause she looked so different than when she had pulled out all those years before. She got a cab right to her front door and when she knocked on the door and said, "Hello, mama," when her mama come to see who it were, her mama let out a scream and all the neighbors come running. Y'all know the story about the prodigal son and the fatted calf, well that's what her mama done. The first thing she done were run down to Milligan's Drug Store and where she bought five gallons of Brown's Velvet ice cream. Then she set about grocery shopping for all the things she remembered Emma Jean liking.
Tomorrow: Sad Epilogue