Once upon a time in Tennessee, there was a little white girl called Puddin’ who enchanted a little black girl called Anna Mae Bullock. “Puddin’ was a perfect, pretty little girl — blonde, with a clean nice dress. And she was friendly. She would always speak to us.”
Anna Mae was friendly too, an energetic tomboy, but she was the unwanted child of a wrecked family. Puddin’ was, to her, everything that was sweet and harmonious. Later, Anna Mae was to see the same harmony in Jackie Kennedy. “Jackie O! I was totally enthralled by her manners, where she came from, where she studied and how she travelled. That was my first claim to want to be a lady.”
Much later, Anna Mae, now known
