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Alice Jankowski (center) carries a flute of champagne during a small dedication ceremony for Abbie Howard at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta on Sunday, November 3, 2013. Donations were gathered from patrons during the cemetery’s 2012 Halloween tours to raise funds for a gravestone for Howard, who according to some historians was the inspiration for the character Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind”.

November 3, 2013 Atlanta – Alice Jankowski (center) carries a flute of champagne during a small dedication ceremony for Abbie Howard at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta on Sunday, November 3, 2013. Donations were gathered from patrons during the cemetery’s 2012 Halloween tours to raise funds for a gravestone for Howard, who according to some historians was the inspiration for the character Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind”. JONATHAN PHILLIPS / SPECIAL

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