The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

The vile-smelling motel room didn't cramp their style.

=aside=
I wonder if they rented rooms by the hour.

[Toast]

Story Ennis wonders what his reaction to their jouncing says about himself:

"You know, I was sittin up here all that time tryin to figure out if I was -- ? I know I ain't. I mean here we both got wives and kids, right? I like doin it with women, yeah, but Jesus H., ain't nothin like this."

[Fran]

While talking to Jack at the Motel Siesta, story Ennis specifically xculpates Alma:

"I doubt there's nothin' now we can do.  What I'm sayin', Jack, I built a life up in them years.  Love my little girls.  Alma?  It ain't her fault."

def. xculpate = to free from alleged fault or guilt

[memento]

Round 413!!!
I have Texas-roasted coffee beans.

[memento]

Jack and Ennis were accomplishing what they came for in the motel - getting a bang for their buck.

[Toast]

It was very kind of Alma to offer coffee to Jack, but Ennis and Jack wanted a more private buzz.

[Meryl]

As Jack stood in the doorway with Ennis, he heard baby Jenny's voice coming from the crib room and asked, "You got a kid?"

[southendmd]

Jack the dreamer told Ennis that he had shot his airplane out of the sky.

[Toast]

Alma Beers Del Mar seemed to know she was watching the evanescence of her marriage to Ennis.

def - The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance

=comment= Paul
Thanks for throwing out the word evanescent.
Great word, still unplayed.

[Meryl]

Jack answered Ennis's question about the Army:  "They can't get no use out a me.  Got some crushed vertebrates.  And a stress fracture, the arm bone here, you know how bullridin you're always leverin it off your thigh?--she gives a little ever time you do it.  Even if you tape it good you break it a little goddamn bit at a time.  Tell you what, it hurts like a bitch afterwards." [story]