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

[southendmd]

While Jack and Ennis had wanderlust, Lureen and Alma were homebodies.

[Fran]

"Sometime in early 1997 the story took shape. One night in a bar upstate I had noticed an older ranch hand, maybe in his late sixties, obviously short on the world's luxury goods. Although spruced up for Friday night his clothes were a little ragged, boots stained and worn. I had seen him around, working cows, helping with sheep, taking orders from a ranch manager. He was thin and lean, muscular in a stringy kind of way. He leaned against the back wall and his eyes were fastened not on the dozens of handsome and flashing women in the room but on the young cowboys playing pool. Maybe he was following the game, maybe he knew the players, maybe one was his son or nephew, but there was something in his expression, a kind of bitter longing, that made me wonder if he was country gay. Then I began to consider what it might have been like for him -- not the real person against the wall, but for any ill-informed, confused, not-sure-of-what-he-was-feeling youth growing up in homophobic rural Wyoming."

-- Annie Proulx, "Getting Movied"     

[memento]

Ennis drives by an Elks lodge on his way home from work.

[Meryl]

Although she knew the true nature of Ennis's relationship to his friend Jack for some years, Alma felt muzzled by her fear of confronting him about it.

[southendmd]

"Bud" and "friend" were so of the nicknames Jack and Ennis used for each other.

[Fran]

"The complicating factor was that [Ennis and Jack] both fell into once-in-a-lifetime love."

-- Annie Proulx, "Getting Movied"       

[memento]

If she saw a handsome cowboy on his way to the men's room, Cassie would bare her soles so he could pamper her feet.

[southendmd]

The shirt-within-a-shirt was a bittersweet remembrance of Jack.

[Fran]

Ennis del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames. The shirts hanging on a nail shudder slightly in the draft. He gets up, scratching the grey wedge of belly and pubic hair, shuffles to the gas burner, pours leftover coffee in a chipped enamel pan; the flame swathes it in blue.

[story]

[Meryl]

After their passionate meet-up at the Siesta Motel, Jack is downcast when Ennis tramples on his hopes for a sweet life.