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Would it have worked? Merged with "Would a SWEET LIFE ever have been possible?"

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jessiwrite:
He didn't see his girls often, and they were nearly grown.  The child support and being near his girls would soon be running thin.  I really feel if Jack had lived things would have changed, not smoothly, but standing it would have become less and less an option.

jessi

dly64:

--- Quote from: jessiwrite on September 18, 2006, 09:28:33 pm ---He didn't see his girls often, and they were nearly grown.  The child support and being near his girls would soon be running thin.  I really feel if Jack had lived things would have changed, not smoothly, but standing it would have become less and less an option.

jessi

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I tend to see Ennis as using his daughters as an excuse. After his daughters were grown, Ennis would have found another reason not to live with Jack. He was just too homophobic. Who knows? If Jack would have lived, he might have given Ennis an ultimatum. However, I just can’t see Jack having a life without Ennis and vice versa. Ennis was forced to acknowledge the depth of his love for Jack (during the lake scene), but ultimately it was too late. Ennis had to live the remainder of his life with regret. The one person he loved, he lost. 

jessiwrite:
The story certainly is final.  I can't help but wonder what if though.  I felt something bend a tiny curve in the standing it wall, small, but sure, something did happen.  Ennis had every right to be afraid, they would be in danger, but he surely loved Jack, and he said he couldn't stand it, of course he could, for then, for longer, but not indefinitly now.  And he surely loved Jack.

jessi

opinionista:
bump

ednbarby:

--- Quote from: dly64 on September 18, 2006, 07:43:42 pm ---Yes ... I agree. Living together is completely overrated!  ;) 

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Ain't DAT the truth?  I think Woody Allen and Mia Farrow actually got it right.  Can I live in a brownstone on the other side of Central Park from my husband, please?  ;)

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