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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 276501" data-attributes="member: 22">1935Lil Trotter (née Hunter) on God: I’ve answered to Him all my life.Aunt Ginny on Medjugorje: I have dreamed about going there all my life.Lilimae: My mama’s favourite hymn was ‘Rock of Ages’.Lilimae: If a heavenly angel came down when I was a child to tell me that a daughter of mine was going to be on The Mike Douglas Show, I’d have would have told her she was crazy.1936Sid Fairgate: My real name is William Sidney, William after my father.Lilimae Clements: When I was a little girl, I went to Galveston with my daddy, saw the ocean for the first time. A wave would break and I'd run as fast as I could to get away from it, and then I'd get brave and chase it back out to sea.Miss Ellie to Garrison: Your ship went down. They said you’d drowned. Daddy died, and then you, both so close together.Miss Ellie: I thought you were dead.Garrison: That's the way I wanted it. Garrison to Miss Ellie: I thought it was best for everyone. I knew you were married to Jock by then and he had the money to save the ranch. I couldn’t come back because I couldn’t face you.Miss Ellie on Garrison: When he was lost at sea, [Jock] and I had to go to court and have him declared dead.Jock: That was just a formality. The ranch was tied up in a legal knot.JR: The ranch went to Mama.Miss Ellie: Because my father thought that Garrison was dead, Jock and I inherited this ranch, but it was my brother that was the real heir.Clayton: But why? He wanted nothing to do with ranching.Miss Ellie: Well, in those days, the ranch was always left to the man in the family.Miss Ellie on Garrison: Even when I thought he was dead, that day in court when we made it official, I felt I was stealing something from him.Miss Ellie: My daddy’s will gave the [Southfork] mineral rights to me.JR, speaking about Ewing Oil and the Cattleman’s Bank in 1986: Fifty years of doing business together.Bobby on the Cattleman’s Bank: Daddy’s always been loyal to this bank.1937Pete Adams on Jason: In 1937, he started his own oil company. It didn’t last very long. He went broke and skipped out of Dallas owing a lot of money, some of which [Jock] made good on. He went to Latin America, worked on several oil drilling operations down there.1938Jock, speaking in 1978: In forty years you've never lied to me, Miss Ellie.Blackie Callaghan: Beth Anne Templeton — the prettiest thing in Tulsa. She had thick black hair, big round blue eyes and the tiniest little feet you ever wanted to see on a human being.Blackie’s daughter Meg, looking at a photograph of Beth Anne: The love of Blackie’s life, taken in 1930-something, right before she and Blackie had a huge fight and Blackie married Mama instead. He never saw her again.Lucy Ewing: Grandma Moses wasn’t just somebody’s grandmother. She was a very famous artist who didn’t get started till she was around ninety.Alex Barton: Actually, she was seventy-nine when she sold her first painting.1939Pete Adams on Jason: Came back to Dallas, 1939.Extract from a signed legal document, dated February 26th 1939: “It is hereby agreed that all revenues and profits in the oil field now known as Ewing 23 will be shared equally by John Ewing and Willard Barnes and their heirs in perpetuity.”Cliff: They probably signed it when Digger was drunk and then forgot all about it. Jock: Digger and I signed a lot of papers.Cliff: Jock Ewing must have signed enough papers during his lifetime to fill a railroad car.Miss Ellie: [In 1939], Ewing Oil paid off the mortgage on Southfork.Jock: It was my life, my sweat and my money that saved this ranch.JR on Jock: He saved this ranch from the auction block when [Miss Ellie]’s daddy went broke.John Ross on Jock: He made us rich and saved Southfork.Miss Ellie: JR, Ewing Oil was a part of my life before you were born. It saved this ranch and it’s the backbone of our family fortune.Miss Ellie: Ewing Oil has always been just a business, no more no less.Sue Ellen, JR’s wife, speaking in 1985: I don’t think I have to take a backseat to Ewing Oil in JR’s life. You never did for Jock.Miss Ellie: Oh yes, there were times that I did. But for the most part, I fought with him side by side for the things that we believed in.Donna Krebbs, speaking about her marriage in 1984: How much am I supposed to give up of what I want?Miss Ellie: I don’t have the answer to that. It’s something that my generation never had to deal with. When I married Jock, I had his children and I took care of Southfork and I was very happy doing it.Donna: That’s right, Miss Ellie, because you were the glue that kept the family together. Miss Ellie to John Ross: Your granddaddy in his own way was a very difficult man to live with. The oil business was always first with him for a very long time [but] no matter how bad things got, your granddaddy was the only man for me so we stuck it out together. It wasn’t always easy, but we did it.Bobby: Mama had this card. She had it in a frame, always kept in on her desk. It said, “My friend is not perfect. Nor am I. But we suit each other admirably.”Miss Ellie: Jock and I made a good marriage.Jock, speaking in 1978: We’ve had a good life, Ellie.Clayton: Jock had a lovely and devoted wife by his side. He was a lucky man. Miss Ellie: I think I was the lucky one.Miss Ellie: My sons had the finest father and I was married to the finest man that God ever put on this earth.Miss Ellie: Jock was everything. He was my life. Miss Ellie: I was one half of a couple for so many years.Clayton on the Ewings: This family wasn’t built on wealth. It was built on character.Miss Ellie on being pregnant: I remember with my sons, the energy I had! To me it was a miracle, for my doctor it was a medical condition. You would have thought I caught something.Miss Ellie: Then I had JR. Somehow children make it all seem more permanent.JR: Mama should have had her tubes tied together right after I was born.Miss Ellie: JR, I gave birth to you, I nursed you and sometimes I spanked you. I tried to change you a thousand times, but you’ve always been what you are — my first baby.JR on Jock: Once he said, “You wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Digger Barnes.”Miss Ellie to JR: Junior, you were born old.Sue Ellen on JR: He’s a natural born fighter.Miss Ellie on JR: A natural born businessman.KGIM news reader: JR Ewing was born in Dallas.Fred, computer expert at Graison Research: Place of birth — Dallas?JR: Braddock.JR: Southfork is my home. I was born there.JR: Southfork isn’t just a piece of dirt. It’s as much a part of me as my blood and my bones.JR: I’ve lived all my life in Dallas.JR: Oil is my birthright.Drew Ramos: The Ewings aren’t the only ones with a birthright.Miss Ellie, holding a pair of baby booties: Can you believe that JR was once little enough for these?Lucy Ewing: Yeah, but I heard his little booties had spikes!Lilimae, speaking to Jason Avery in 1982: When I was a girl your age [ten], we lived at the edge of this big old swamp.Lilimae: A trot-line is a fishing line that’s strung across a riverbed, lies on the bottom and there’s a hook every foot or so. I never did like trot-lines. People didn’t intend for them to be cruel, but they are. You put them in for catfish. Every time you pull them up, you find fish hooked every which way, or a turtle snagged, swimming, swimming, never getting anywhere, or even a mud hen caught, couldn’t get up for air. Well, I used to pull up trot-lines whenever I could get away with it and I would throw the dead ones away and let loose the wounded ones.Lilimae: When I was a girl back in Tennessee, I’d see every one of Andrew Douglas’s pictures. Sit through them all day long. Andrew Douglas’s movies were so romantic — and cry? Oh, I’d need three hankies! Lilimae: Here's a song my mama used to sing to me when I was a girl. "Who's going to shoe your pretty little feet, who's going to glove your hands? …" Lilimae on playing the autoharp: I never took a [music] lesson in my life, no classes, no nothing. Just came to me as natural as singing comes to birds.Clayton: I used to sing a little when I was younger. As a matter of fact, my mother had quite a lovely voice.JR: And your sister Jessica?Clayton: She played the piano, and quite well too.Clayton on him and Jessica: We never spent a lot of time together. Jessica Montford (neé Farlow): When Clayton and I were growing up, he was not only my big brother, he was like my father a lot of the time. Daddy — he was always busy with Southern Cross and the refineries. He didn’t have much time for a girl.Clayton to Ray: Southern Cross was a very successful breeding ranch before you were born.Jessica, speaking to Ray in 1984: You remind me of [Clayton] when he was younger. You’re both strong and silent men, men of the fields, men of the soil.Clayton: I was raised to believe there’s a right and a wrong.Jessica on Clayton: He’s always been an honourable man.“Rabbit” Hutch: Remember that time down in Tulsa you took on that drunk who wanted my scalp for a keepsake?Clayton: He almost took mine instead!Curly Morrison: Old Clayton, he was the scourge of San Angelo. There wasn’t a girl in town didn’t have her bonnet set for him. Clayton: I did kick up my heels a little bit in the old wildcatting days.Kimberly Cryder on her father, Dr Herbert Anderson Styles: Styles is from Austin. He was a handsome man with a big powerful voice, a man who could do anything — wildcatting, hunting. He was a great horseman.JR: They tell me you were quite a sharp man in your younger days. Dr Styles: I was strong, ruthless.Carter McKay: Dr Styles and I had been friends all of our lives.McKay on Dr Styles: I always liked him.McKay: I’ve never been one for much socialising. I’ve always been what you might call a bit of recluse.1940JR: Tradition has always played a big part in the Ewing family.JR: We Ewings have always run a very conservative operation — solid investments, well-surveyed fields, that sort of thing.JR, speaking in 1990 about Jock’s first oil well in Pride: They were taking oil out fifty years ago and I know damn well they didn’t get all of it.Clayton: The boys tell me that too much oil was taken out all at once.Lilimae, meeting Pete Mackenzie in 1982: This can’t be Mack’s daddy!Mack Mackenzie: My mother swore he was in town at the time.Mack on his father: He used to do "a little of this, a little of that.” A salesman I guess, mostly.</blockquote>

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