{"text":"Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["landscape","nostalgia","small-town","south-carolina","spring"],"id":43603,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"}