There was a time, Rosalynn Carter once confessed, when she dreaded going back to Plains, her tiny Georgia hometown.
She was enjoying her life as a young sailor’s wife, relishing the freedom and sense of adventure that came from being so far from home.
“I had been self-sufficient and independent from my mother and Jimmy’s mother,” Mrs. Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, recalled several years ago in an interview.
“And I knew that if I went home, I was going to have to come back to them.”The anger faded.
Eventually, she said, no matter where she was in the world, she was always eager to get home to Plains.
Persons:
Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy, “, ” Mrs, Carter
Organizations:
U.S . Navy
Locations:
Plains, Georgia