# Gone With the Wind-Architectural question

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 17, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gone-with-the-wind-architectural-question/496700 "2009-05-17T01:26:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gone-with-the-wind-architectural-question/496700/121 "2009-05-29T15:09:07Z")

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When Scarlett comes back to Tara and realizes how bad things really are, she does think about going to her relatives. Give Melanie and the baby to the Wilkes, give her sisters to the Robillards, and she and Gerard would turn to the O’Haras. But she’s too proud to do it. She realizes the O’Haras don’t take charity and she can’t leave Tara. That is the first moment she grows up a little and takes on an adult’s responsibility.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gone-with-the-wind-architectural-question/496700/122 "2009-05-29T16:29:33Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> I cannot find a cite, but I swear I didn’t make it up: supposedly Mitchell worked on another novel, not a sequel but a separate book altogether, with the working title \*Ropa Carmaginia \*(sometimes _ **Eu** ropa_). The main character was a mulatto- no idea if she was light enough to cross the color line. (For this reason in my sequel Scarlett’s mulatto ancestress, Solange’s mother or perhaps grandmother, will be named Europa… or perhaps Dakota Scout.)

Yes, I’ve read it. Many years ago…it’s a much shorter book, and I don’t know where the hell my copy went. IIRC, the main character was in love with a mulatto…she wasn’t one herself.

Found it…_[Lost Laysen](http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Margaret-Mitchell---Lost-Laysen_W0QQitemZ130309233243QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090528?IMSfp=TL090528148001r33281)_.

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