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If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?"

John Berendt
Grandmother, Atlanta, Names
"Even in the Best of Cities" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. February 06, 1994.
If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, What's your business? In Macon they ask, Where do you go to church? In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question