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

[Toast]

Aguirre came cantering along the trail and innocently said:
"Twist.  Your Uncle Harold's in the hospital with pneumonia.
Doctors don't expect he'll make it.
Your ma sent me to tell you, so... here I am."

=congratulations=
To all on 400 pages.
Good News.

[Fran]

In the summer of 1963, Jack yearned to be anywhere other than the jerkwater town of Lightning Flat.

def:  (adj) small, unimportant, etc.

[Lumière]

Ma Twist was the kindest, most nurturing of all the BBM parents.  Without passing any judgement, she embraced the knowledge of Ennis and Jack's relationship through the years.

[ProwlAmongUs]

Luckily, too much whiskey and cold temperatures forced Ennis into the tent that chilly night, and the boys got to know each other better.

[memento]

Ennis comes across as a completely authentic American cowboy - masculine, tough, independent and stoic.

[Toast]

Jack had a nerve-wracking "interview" with Aguirre in 1964.  He told Ennis about some of it in the short story:

"Got to tell you, friend, maybe somebody seen us that summer. I was back there the next June, thinkin about goin back -- I didn't, lit out for Texas instead -- and Joe Aguirre's in the office and he says to me, he says, 'You boys found a way to make the time pass up there, didn't you,' and I give him a look but when I went out I seen he had a big-ass pair a binoculars hangin off his rearview." He neglected to add that the foreman had leaned back in his squeaky wooden tilt chair, said, Twist, you guys wasn't gettin paid to leave the dogs baby-sit the sheep while you stemmed the rose, and declined to rehire him. He went on, "Yeah, that little punch a yours surprised me. I never figured you to throw a dirty punch."

[Fran]

The onus of describing her husband's death to his "fishin' buddy" Ennis fell on Lureen.

[ProwlAmongUs]

Jack’s love for Ennis permeated his being to the core.

[Toast]

Jack and Ennis became questers:  trip after trip in the mountains of Wyoming, searching for a place to be themselves.

[Front-Ranger]

After 20 years, Ennis found his old shirt with the ripped pocket in Jack's closet with Jack's old shirt over it.