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Jeff Wrangler:
It's so difficult to know what might have become of a real-life Ennis. He could be alive and well today aged only 63. Or, with a rough life, poor diet, probably little or no health care, and the smoking and the drinking, he could be with Jack long already. Poor guy. . . .
Penthesilea:
--- Quote ---He could be alive and well today aged only 63. Or, with a rough life, poor diet, probably little or no health care, and the smoking and the drinking, he could be with Jack long already
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I've seen a man losing the one and only love of his life in his fourties - and never being able to bond to any other person again. Not to find friends, let alone love. Living a sad and lonley life, finding comfort only in the visits of his daughter and alcohol.
Poor diet, no health care (because he refused to it, he would have had the oppotunity), smoking and drinking slowly but surely killed him. He died of alcohol abuse at age 64. Alone in his little appartment. His body was found two days later.
Maybe it's because of this experience that I can't see Ennis finding anyone else. As much as I want to, I can't.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on May 24, 2006, 04:26:26 am ---I've seen a man losing the one and only love of his life in his fourties - and never being able to bond to any other person again. Not to find friends, let alone love. Living a sad and lonley life, finding comfort only in the visits of his daughter and alcohol.
Poor diet, no health care (because he refused to it, he would have had the oppotunity), smoking and drinking slowly but surely killed him. He died of alcohol abuse at age 64. Alone in his little appartment. His body was found two days later.
Maybe it's because of this experience that I can't see Ennis finding anyone else. As much as I want to, I can't.
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That's very sad, Penthesilea. Reminds me of a late close friend. In his case, the love of his life, the mainspring of his existence, wasn't a person but his job. He lost that when his employer was bought out. He received a nice buy-out package, and he was comfortable anyway from family inheritance, but nevertheless after he lost that job, he essentially stayed in his apartment and smoked and drank himself to death last year at age 52. Nothing any of us, his friends, tried to do to help him did any good because he didn't want to be helped.
I don't see Ennis finding anyone else, either, though I hope the small glimmer of change we see in him agreeing to attend Alma, Jr.,'s wedding indicates that he won't close himself off from the world entirely. At least, that's what I tried to imagine when I wrote my fanfiction, "Some Sweet Life."
Penthesilea:
--- Quote ---I don't see Ennis finding anyone else, either, though I hope the small glimmer of change we see in him agreeing to attend Alma, Jr.,'s wedding indicates that he won't close himself off from the world entirely. At least, that's what I tried to imagine when I wrote my fanfiction, "Some Sweet Life."
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I read your story and I liked it very much. Yes, this is the way I see Ennis's life going on. And, to be honest, I cried through almost your whole story.
The best Ennis can hope for is seeing Jack again somewhere, somehow...
And this is also true for all of us in real life: somewhere, somehow, sometime......... maybe
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on May 26, 2006, 07:43:47 am ---I read your story and I liked it very much. Yes, this is the way I see Ennis's life going on. And, to be honest, I cried through almost your whole story.
The best Ennis can hope for is seeing Jack again somewhere, somehow...
And this is also true for all of us in real life: somewhere, somehow, sometime......... maybe
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Oh, dear, I'm sorry my story made you cry--but thank you for letting me know you liked it.
Jeff
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