Love, Braid Us ThreePetula Mills is an old fashioned Southern girl who is as steeped in the South as it is in her. But, at age nineteen she has attended enough church and read enough about the opportunities that await the brave at heart in a world beyond her native Charleston. She's ready to become truly productive, follow her dreams and perhaps even abandon her roots. Rachel Johns is an independent eighteen year old with a matter of fact way of looking at everything.