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

[southendmd]

Jack was searching for a glimmer of hope from Ennis, but only found anti-aircraft fire.

[Toast]

Story Alma's resolve hardens over the years:

"Her resentment opened out a little every year: the embrace she had glimpsed, Ennis's fishing trips once or twice a year with Jack Twist and never a vacation with her and the girls, his disinclination to step out and have any fun, his yearning for low paid, long-houred ranch work, his propensity to roll to the wall and sleep as soon as he hit the bed, his failure to look for a decent permanent job with the county or the power company, put her in a long, slow dive and when Alma Jr. was nine and Francine seven she said, what am I doin hangin around with him, divorced Ennis and married the Riverton grocer."

[Fran]

Ennis and Jack make small talk with Alma while trying to control the inrush of emotions they're feeling.

[Meryl]

Starting at the Siesta and continuing up in the mountains, Ennis and Jack were glad to have time to jawbone about what had happened over the last four years.

[Toast]

Ennis told Jack about his father laughingly showing off the dead body of Earl.   

[memento]

The motel provided Ennis and Jack with the mere essentials - a bed and a bathroom.

[Fran]

Ennis nixed Alma's suggestion about taking Jack to the Knife & Fork for a nourishing meal by saying, "Jack ain't the restaurant type.  We'll more'n likely just go out and get drunk.  If he shows."

[Toast]

Jack soon realized that he was much more willing to be outgoing about their relationship than Ennis was.

[memento]

Jack wrote Ennis a postcard saying that we would be passing through Riverton on the 24th and wanted to know if he would be there.

[Fran]

In time, the resentfulness Alma feels towards Ennis will become unbearable, and she will divorce him.