Having googled 'Sadie Hawkins,' I am almost too disappointed to relate the information to you.It seems she was a character in the comic strip, Li'l Abner. Described as "the homeliest gal in all them hills," she was still a spinster at thirty-five, so her father, Hekzebiah Hawkins, gathered together all the bachelors of Dogpatch and said
"when ah fires- all o' yo' kin start a-runnin! When ah fires agin - after givin' yo' a fair start - Sadie starts a runnin'. Th' one she ketches'll be her husband."
That was the first Sadie Hawkins Day. Thereafter, it became an annual holiday in which all the spinsters of Dogpatch participated. The event has led to many real life traditions, such as the Sadie Hawkins dance. Whatever.
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