And that's all true, but mostly, they have come to make sure she is still strong. Years back, they were thrilled when McMillan found delicious, defiant love with a handsome island man 23 years her junior. They knew all about her romance because she told them, in great detail, in her best-selling novel, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." Last month, they were shocked to learn that man was gay, and McMillan was denouncing him as a deceitful gold digger. They know all that because the pending divorce is spectacularly, publicly messy. She did the "Today" show; he did "Good Morning America."
The dress she's wearing used to be boring and drab, an old beige color that tired her out. She plunged it into a vat of acid green color. "I dye everything, honey," she says as she signs in her big loopy letters. The hair. The lampshades. She had a manic crafts phase and now some 200 shades sit in her garage.
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