![]() Right around the time her movie Beloved, the film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, tanked at the box office in the fall of 1998-and after “ Deliverance moved in next door” to her farm in Indiana-Oprah decided she needed to make some big changes, and so she began looking to buy an actual Southern plantation. It’s no accident that this place is reminiscent of a Southern plantation. The tree is just one in a grove of twelve (the Apostles), and it is hard to tell where one tree ends and the next begins, their endless branches twisting and curling in a gorgeous, spooky tangle. We are heading toward her favorite spot, where, under the shade of a spectacular live oak, she often lies on a chaise and reads. Translation: It is a beautiful early evening in May, and Oprah and I are walking along one of the cobblestone lanes she has built on her 65-acre California estate, a startlingly beautiful landscape she calls the Promised Land. ![]() Only at Oprah’s house can one come up with a sentence like that as a literal description. It is the golden hour in the Promised Land, and we are walking down Hallelujah Lane, going to see the Apostles. ![]()
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