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TJ:

--- Quote from: Will-ABC on May 10, 2006, 08:10:39 pm ---Thanx, Barb, for also telling it like it is.  (Where's Leslie?  Send her over.)

Mrs. Mary Twist did everything but have it engraved on her forehead:  My son is Gay and I know it!  "Jackie" was Gay.  He was!  U noticed that when he went slaging in MeXico, he dint need a road map of the Gay alleys!  Mrs. Twist as a mother probably knew her son was G-A-Y from the time that Lil' Jackie was 5 or less.  BTW, your parents being Pentecostal has nada to do w/ BBM or this Board! 

And TJ, dont talk "fictional characters" or U really, IMUHO, dont belong here at all.  Next U'll be telling us that Mrs. Twist breathed air. 

--- End quote ---

In the way that I read Annie Proulx's original short story as published in books, Jack Twist NEVER went to Mexico. He only claimed that he did when Ennis asked him if he did.

I don't think that it is fair for people who live in big cities claim they know more than people who have actually lived around and with country people like those in the Annie Proulx story.

My parents did NOT know that I was homosexual or even gay until November 1988 and I was 46 at the time. They had no idea that some of my friends whom they liked very much were homosexual, too.

JennyC:
For a thread with only 15 posts, but viewed 211 times, it’s not bad at all  :).

Ditto all the above reasons why we love Mrs Twit.

I love Mrs Twist because she is such a loving, caring and understanding mother. Had it not been her, Jack would not be the loving person with a big heart that we came to know, and there won’t be the story of Ennis and Jack.  Can you imagine Jack grew up with only the influence of the stud duck?

Mrs Twist is a great mother, and should be honored on the special day.  Happy mother’s day, Mrs Twist!

serious crayons:
I love Mrs. Twist because, after watching the movie today, I am convinced she knows about Ennis' and Jack's relationship, and communicates her knowledge, and her sympathies, to Ennis. First there's the comforting hand on his shoulder, the suggestion he go up to the room, the nod in response to the shirts, the paper bag.

Then, as Ennis is going out the door, he nods thanks again for the shirts. They lock eyes -- he actually turns slightly in a very subtle double-take when he sees her expression -- and they hold that look for maybe an extra half a second. In that moment she is telling him she understands, and offering one last wordless gesture of comfort. And he gets it.

vkm91941:
I love Jack's Mom because it's Mother's  Day, and she reminds me of my own Mom before her stroke, the gentleness, the knowing kindness in the eyes, the careworn face.  Except my MOM was a real firecracker...SHE would have SAID , "JOHN!......... Listen up old man" ..." give him the damn ashes!"   and that would have been the end of that.!  ;)

Lost my Mom 2 years ago last month miss her everyday...

TJ:
Since the local time is after midnight, I can say that this is the first Mother's day when my mom is not around.

I posted it elsewhere, but, there was only one of those days when I was not able to talk to her and that was when I was in Vietnam.

As Roberta Maxwell claimed about Jack's mom, my mother was a Practicing Pentecostal, too.

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