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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5490725 times)

Offline southendmd

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"A" is acceptable
« Reply #12430 on: April 09, 2007, 12:03:06 pm »
Jack's statment about missing Ennis was too much for him; to Ennis, it was not acceptable and he could not respond.
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"B" is bashfully
« Reply #12431 on: April 09, 2007, 12:19:18 pm »
Ennis reacts bashfully to Jack's heartfelt expression of missing him when they are apart.   

Annie Proulx wrote:  "Jack said he was doing all right but he missed Ennis bad enough sometimes to make him whip babies."
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"C" is calvin'
« Reply #12432 on: April 09, 2007, 01:01:23 pm »
Ennis:  "Jack, I got a work.  Them earlier days I used a quit the jobs.  You got a wife with money, a good job.  You forget how it is bein' broke all the time.  You ever hear a child support?  I been payin' out for years and got more to go.  Let me tell you, I can't quit this one.  And I can't get the itme off.  It was tough gettin' this time -- some a them late heifers is still calvin'.  You don't leave then.  You don't.  Stoutamire is a hell-raiser and he raised hell about me taking the week.  I don't blame him.  He probly ain't got a night's sleep since I left.  The trade-off was August.  You got a better idea?"  [story]

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"D" is dithered
« Reply #12433 on: April 09, 2007, 01:50:01 pm »
On their last fishin' trip, Jack decided he had dithered long enough and finally told Ennis exactly how he felt.
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"E" is encircles
« Reply #12434 on: April 09, 2007, 01:51:10 pm »
Jack moves towards Ennis again, encircles him in a firm embrace, and this time, Ennis doesn't resist. His legs give way, he falls to his knees, crying.

Jack says, "Come here...it's all right. It's all right...damn you, Ennis."  They hug one another, a last fierce, desperate embrace.
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"F" is fades
« Reply #12435 on: April 09, 2007, 02:47:22 pm »
After they torque things almost to where they had been, Jack watches as Ennis's pickup truck fades away into the distance.
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"G" is gridlock
« Reply #12436 on: April 09, 2007, 02:59:16 pm »
When Jack continues his "I miss you so much" confession to Ennis the next day with "You don't know how bad it gets," the emotional gridlock of years finally starts to move its wheels.
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"H" is handily
« Reply #12437 on: April 09, 2007, 03:01:58 pm »
Ennis handily recovers from Jack's outburst of disappointment; drives off with the horses - never to see Jack again.
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"I" is inferred
« Reply #12438 on: April 09, 2007, 03:16:52 pm »
Ennis inferred much about Jack when he asked Jack if he had been to Mexico.
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"J" is jubilations
« Reply #12439 on: April 09, 2007, 03:31:05 pm »
Ennis denied himself the inherent joys and jubilations of a life with Jack.
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