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

[southendmd]

When Ennis couldn't get the time off for August, that was the last vicissitude Jack could suffer in their on-again, off-again relationship.

[memento]

Ennis had a tendency to withhold any display of affection toward Jack except for the day of their four-year reunion.

[Fran]

Story Ennis and a Chilean herder with no English had worked xhaustibly for five miserable days trying to untangle the sheep.

[Fran]

Round 639!

The Distance Round

The summer went on and they moved the herd to new pasture, shifted the camp; the distance between the sheep and the new camp was greater and the night ride longer.

 ...then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but
 drive away in opposite directions.

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[Toast]

"Right," said Jack, and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions.   Jack headed off to his father's acres to give him a hand through the winter and Ennis was off to marry Alma.

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Go The Distance, Players!

[memento]

After driving the distance between Childress and Riverton to see Ennis after his divorce, it became clear that Jack had barked up the wrong tree.

[southendmd]

As the summer went on, they moved to a different pasture and camped in a different spot; the distance between the sheep and the new camp was greater and the night ride longer.

[Fran]

Before there was "forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions,", Jack had told Ennis that he planned to go up to his daddy's place to give him a hand over the winter and then head out for Texas in the spring, if he didn't get drafted.

[Meryl]

After the reunion, the closeness Ennis and Alma had enjoyed began to ebb, until the distance between them felt miles wide.

[Toast]

When he heard of Ennis's divorce fourteen hundred miles away, Jack made one of his fastest trips to Riverton to visit his newly emancipated fishing buddy.