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In rural Alabama circa World War II, a farm girl named Audrey Mae Sheppard was at the tail end of a series of bad decisions. An ill-fated marriage and a pregnancy made her a single mother at the age of 18, and she’d had to move back home. An aspiring singer herself, she one day discovered an unassuming, lanky singer-songwriter named Hank Williams, and they fell in love. Their tumultuous union was defined by her singular, driving ambition to make them both stars.
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\\Still in Love With You\\ by Lycrecia Williams
\\Hank\\ by Mark Ribowsky
\\The Hank Williams Museum\\
\\Hank Williams A&E Biography\\
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