Susan Spencer

Poppy Maribel was perhaps Lita's best friend.

She was a very sweet person, so she loved entertaining her family and friends.

It was a close-knit family.

Lita being the oldest child of Joanne and Emery McClinton.

Lita is missed at every calorie.

Lita was working in an upscale women's boutique, and one day, Jim Sullivan walked in.

Well, Jim was quite charming initially.

Lita was enthralled.

Lita thought he was a nice person and a gentleman.

Sullivan was a dashing businessman from Macon, Georgia, who'd inherited a business worth millions.

And he lavished attention on Lita.

Yes, she did.

She truly did.

But Leta's parents were worried about how a biracial couple might fare in Macon and about the different side of Jim Sullivan that they were beginning to see.

Prone, the McLintons say, to omit inconvenient information.

It was the night before her marriage, before he told her that he had been married before and had four kids?

That's correct.

But the next day, December 29, 1976, Lita McClinton became Lita Sullivan.

Which was a very small family wedding.

And the newlyweds settled in Macon, Georgia.