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

[Toast]

Years upon years, Jack and Ennis travelled the back trails of Wyoming - involving no one but themselves in their adventures.

[Meryl]

Four years after the day they'd said goodbye in Signal, Ennis was loping down the stairs two at a time to embrace his old buddy.

[memento]

Monroe attempted to master the art of electric knife carving on Thanksgiving Day.

=aside= Meryl
Thanks.

[Toast]

After years upon years of slow corrosion, Alma was finally successful at negotiating a divorce from Ennis to marry the Riverton grocer.

[Fran]

On the 6th day of November, 1975, custody of Alma Jr. and Jenny was granted to Alma, making her the head of a one-adult, two-child household.

[Meryl]

Ennis found that over the years, the phantoms of his dead father and of Earl and Rich never quite left him, rising up time and again to fill him with fear and self-loathing.

[Toast]

On the 6th day of November, 1975, a judge releases Ennis from the day-to-day responsibilities of Alma Jr. and Jenny; but makes him responsible for them financially.

[Fran]

A few weeks later on the Saturday he threw all Stoutamire's dirty horse blankets into the back of his pickup and took them down to the Quik Stop Car Wash to turn the high-pressure spray on them.

[Meryl]

The weeks Ennis and Jack spent traipsing in the mountains of Wyoming over the years were times of joy and companionship, but there was never enough time, never enough.

[Toast]

By May of 1983, after years upon years of asking, Jack had decided that the question of what to do about himself and Ennis having a sweet life together was unresolvable:

"  ..  You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you."