Annelle, now married to Sammy and pregnant, tells M'Lynn she wants to name her own baby after Shelby, as she was the reason she and Sammy met. M'Lynn gradually accepts her daughter's decision to have risked her life in return for a few special years of motherhood and decides to focus her energy on helping Jackson raising Jack Jr. After doctors determine Shelby's condition is irreversible, the family jointly decide to remove her from life support.ДЄfter the funeral, M'Lynn breaks down but the other women comfort her. Shelby is comatose, having contracted an infection in her central nervous system due to the suppressive therapy that keeps her body from rejecting the kidney. Shelby recovers but four months later, Jackson arrives home to find her unconscious. Around Jackson Jr.'s first birthday, Shelby undergoes a successful transplant with M'Lynn's donated kidney. Shelby has a baby boy, Jackson Jr., but soon develops kidney failure requiring regular dialysis. Truvy encourages M'Lynn to instead focus on the joy a new baby brings. Everyone is thrilled except for MвЂ™Lynn, knowing it is too risky. Soon after, Annelle, following a short-lived wild streak, becomes deeply religious, annoying everyone, including Sammy.Дuring the Christmas holidays, Shelby announces she is pregnant. Shelby, sympathetic, invites Annelle to the wedding reception where she meets bartender Sammy DeSoto (Kevin J. Annelle further admits she is unsure her marriage is legal.

Annelle tearfully reveals that her no-good husband, Bunkie, is evading the police and has taken all their money and the car. Grouchy and sarcastic Louisa 'Ouiser' Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine) arrives at the salon and immediately begins interrogating Annelle about her background. Shelby had considered ending her engagement to her fiancГ©, Jackson (Dylan McDermott), so he would not be deprived of children. M'Lynn reveals that due to Shelby's medical condition, her doctor advises against her having children. While there, Shelby, who has type 1 diabetes, suffers a hypoglycemic attack, but recovers quickly with the women's help. They, and Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis), the former mayor's cheerful widow, arrive at Truvy's to have their hair done. Meanwhile, M'Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field) and her daughter, Shelby (Julia Roberts), busily prepare for Shelby's wedding that is being held later that day. Jessica Phillips of Country Weekly gave the soundtrack three stars out of five, saying that 'no sound track about love is complete without country music' and praising the cuts by Swift, Jewel and Steel Magnolia, but adding that it 'could have mined a little deeper into country music's rich vault.' Track list No.Annelle Dupuy (Daryl Hannah), a shy, awkward beauty school graduate, moves to a northwestern Louisiana town where Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) hires her to work in her home-based beauty salon. Jewel's ' Stay Here Forever' was also released to country radio in advance of the album's release. Taylor Swift has two cuts: ' Jump then Fall' and ' Today Was a Fairytale,' both of which had previously been released as digital singles.

The song has reached Top 10 on the Billboard country charts.

' Keep On Lovin' You' was recorded by Steel Magnolia, the second-season winners of the talent show Can You Duet, on its self-titled debut extended play.

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