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TOTW 06/09: What would you say to Ennis?
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: atz75 on August 14, 2009, 03:44:16 pm ---What a wonderful thread (and question for the thread)! :D I'm sitting here at work, thoroughly enjoying all these responses. I'll have to ponder some more before I submit a real answer to this question. But, for now I wanted to say that this thread reminds me of how much I love the Brokie community.
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We love you (broke)back, friend!
Brown Eyes:
Thanks Lee. :)
I've been thinking a lot about this thread, and still don't have a great answer about what I'd say to Ennis. I don't think there's any one single thing I'd say to him... I might have a variety of different things to say to him at different ages or over the course of the narrative that we're familiar with.
Many of the suggestions already mentioned here in this thread would probably be close to the things I might say to him. I'd tell him that his father was wrong, to trust himself more, to listen to Jack more, to try to find ways to be happy before it's too late. I'd definitely tell him that society is wrong... I don't know. It's a very difficult question.
SFEnnisSF:
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I keep wanting to say this to my closeted gay Republican police officer friend, who has really been struggling with his sexuality and coming out lately... He's even more stubborn than Ennis I think, and he's built that wall of denial and separation up so high I don't know if it can ever be torn down. It's been a roller coaster... He makes me so angry sometimes because all I want is happiness for him, and I know when he says he's "happy the way it is now", I know he's #1 very niave, and #2 lying.... Arrrgh.
Shakesthecoffecan:
I would say to him: Ennis, your debts are paid. You owe no explaination to no one. You have loved and lost and what you do with the rest of your life if up to you. You will always carry Jack in your heart, build on that.
BBM_victim:
Friends, great thread!!
I don't know what i would say to Ennis - who am I anyway? A stranger nobody listens to. I WISHED Jack had told him that line from "Love that will never grow old":
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Lean on me, let our hearts beat in time,
Feel strength from the hands that have held you so long.
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This line always lets me cry because it's so true :'( Ennis, you will always have Jack - feel strength from that, you are not alone.
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