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newyearsday:
I think we've already covered 17--there's the mailbox numbers, and the "17 and 2" which is the time yelled out for the woman who rides just after Lureen in the rodeo..then in the story there is the sentence where Ennis describes Alma Jr being a shy 17-year-old, when they are talking at the last camping trip.

So is it one of those? If so, I'll get us started on another number: Actually it's a combo: find and name where this series of numbers are in the book, spread over two paragraphs back to back--2, 2, 4, 4.

cmr107:
Jack...drank his two bottles of beer...ate two bowls of stew, four of Ennis's stone biscuits...(next paragraph) "I'm commutin four hours a day"

Good one Jenny!

Oops, almost forgot to give a new number: 93 (from the story)

DeeDee:
Ok, I'll field this one:

"you count the damn few times we have been together in nearly 20 years..."

newyearsday:
"Shot a coyote just first light....I bet he'd took a few lambs."

and

"...Ennis had a good raspy voice; a few nights they mangled their way through some songs."

and

"Jack said he'd had a thing going with the wife of a rancher down the road in Childress and for the last few months he'd slank around expecting to get shot by Lureen or the husband..."

and the last one I'll do, though there may be more...

"He stepped back and looked at the ensemble through a few stinging tears."

So, next question (getting harder now...): find the place in the story where this set of numbers appear in one paragraph: 8, 10, 4, 2, 2.

Ellemeno:
Excellando, Jenny!  I found your paragraph -

The road to Lightning Flat went through desolate country past a dozen abandoned  ranches distributed over the plain at eight- and ten-mile intervals, houses sitting  blank-eyed in the weeds, corral fences down. The mailbox read John C. Twist. The  ranch was a meagre little place, leafy spurge taking over. The stock was too far distant  for him to see their condition, only that they were black baldies. A porch stretched  across the front of the tiny brown stucco house, four rooms, two down, two up.    

Are we almost out of numbers?  What's next - letters?  LOL.  Colors?  Verbs?  Emotions?  Some kind of MadLibs?  Did you ever play that?  That might be cute.

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