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Gayden Metcalfe

Saturday 2nd of May 2026

Civility  The Episcopalian ideal of a gentleman is a man who, if a lady falls down drunk, will pick her up off the floor and freshen up her drink. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral © 2018 Kwiple.com
Looks  People in the Delta look better dead, whether in their coffins or obituaries. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral © 2018 Kwiple.com
Religion “I just don't know,” Anne Dudley said. “Did I  hurt my knees yesterday afternoon  doing the Stations of the Cross? Or did I do it falling down drunk last night?” That, in a nutshell, is the spirit of Southern Episcopalianism. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral © 2018 Kwiple.com
Socio-economic mobility “Methodists are frustrated Baptists who'd like to be Episcopalians,” said Lucy Mattie Trigg. That is: They'd like to whoop and holler, but they're not deaf to the clarion call of upward mobility. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
the South We're people with a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. We won't forget you just because you've up and died. We may even like you better and visit you more often. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral © 2018 Kwiple.com