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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 280001" data-attributes="member: 22">1948Digger to Cliff: My whole life, I never got one thing I wanted — except you.JR on Cliff: I think that boy was born without any manners whatsoever.Cliff: I was born to be dumped on by the Ewings. As a matter of fact, sometimes I think that the good Lord put me on this earth for that specific purpose.JR on Cliff: He’s hated this family since the day he was born.JR on the Barneses and Ewings: There’s been bad blood between our families for as long as I can remember.Cliff: I think JR and I would have hated each other no matter what our names were.Laura Avery, born 1948Mary Robeson on Laura: Even as a baby, she had that quality. She hardly ever cried. Mary on Laura: She’s my daughter.Greg: You didn’t raise her, you didn’t clothe her, you didn’t feed her. Your daughter? Laura didn’t even know you existed.Mary: I had my daughter torn away from me.Mary: I was cheated out of my child.Greg: Nobody cheated you out of anything. You were a drunk who abandoned your daughter.Pat Knelman on Mary: The welfare people took her little girl away from her, said Mary wasn’t a good mother.Mack, speaking to Mary in 1992: You were an unfit mother.Toni Fields, attorney: That is not for you to decide.Mack: I didn’t decide it. The court did, long before I knew her or Laura.Mary: Laura was taken from me when she was an infant. She was stolen by a crooked bureaucrat in a state adoption agency in Florida. Mary: That social worker stole her and sold her to that married couple out of state.Gary: Mary Robeson was not Laura’s mother. She was her aunt. Laura’s real mother died in childbirth.Mack: Mary’s real name was Loretta. Karen on Laura’s adoptive parents: They must have taken pretty good care of her because she often talked about her happy childhood.Laura: Meg happens to be my mother’s name.Ben Gibson: Mom was [called] Betsy.Ben: I was born on a little farm outside of Steubenville, Ohio. Dean Martin was from Steubenville, you know.Amos Krebbs on Ray: I raised him for three years.Ray: You ran off on me and Ma. You never come back once, never sent a letter, postcard even, not a dime. Amos: I didn’t have one to send. I tell you, things just wasn’t good for me.Ray: Basically, you just never gave a damn.Clayton on Jessica: She had her head full of a lot of crazy notions, travelling all over and meeting all kinds of people. Miss Ellie: Lots of girls dream like that.Clayton: Jessie achieved a lot of it. San Angelo newspaper headline: “Local Girl Marries English Lord — Jessica Farlow Becomes Lady Montford”Clayton on Jessica: She married a nobleman, an English lord named Henry Montford, and settled down in England. I never saw her for years. Miss Ellie: As close as you and Clayton apparently were, I am surprised you married an Englishman and lived over there.Jessica: Well, things change.Jessica on the Montford family sword: It belonged to Henry’s great grandfather. It hung over the mantle in our home. Jessica on the English: I never did take to their tea drinking and little watercress sandwiches. I guess you can take the girl out of Texas but you can’t take Texas out of the girl.Jessica on her and Atticus Ward: We kept in touch through the years. 1949Angelica Nero: When he was twenty-one years old, Dimitri [Marinos] inherited his fortune. He ran wild all over the world, jet-setting from here to there, from there to Texas. He was making oil deals and connections with everyone. Sid Fairgate: When I was a kid, we were taught that marijuana led to drug addiction. JR: Drug dealing is a nasty business. In my day, people used to think that only hardened criminals did something like that.Al Baker: In our day, people thought Carmen Miranda was outrageous.Lilimae: I had a pair of platform shoes this high! Lilimae on her autoharp: Granny gave it to me the day she died and I’ve had that old autoharp with me ever since, through good times and bad.Lilimae: As a teenager, I stole the O’Reillys’ DeSoto, went down to Port Arthur for that talent contest.Sylvia Lean: My mother wanted to be a star.Sylvia: My mother said she was doing it for me, but I would never have been a dancer if my mother hadn’t have pushed me. I think the happiest night of her life was when I played the old Lyric Theatre in Baltimore. She brought the whole neighbourhood.Mack: When I was in school, there was this other kid who was this wonderful clarinetist and he practised all the time and his mother used to push him and push him. We were always getting these invitations to Daniel’s recital. He had these collections of these little figurines, like of Beethoven and Mozart. We’d snap the noses off them when he wasn’t looking.Karen: You were rotten kids.Mack: We might have been rotten, but we were normal.Sid: When I was at school, everybody else was into jitterbugging and sports and listening to crooners. Me, all I cared about was building model aeroplanes and model cars and messing around with my brother's hot rod. But they all used to laugh at me, think I had a nut loose somewhere, so I tried to be like everybody else. I played sports, it was fun, but what I really wanted to do was get my hands on an engine. Then I decided, "What the heck? I think I'm just going to be myself," and it worked out pretty good.Karen: I used to stare at the clock, my teacher’s clock, in the second grade. Waited for the recess bell. She always used to say you couldn’t see the big hand move.Greg to her sister Claudia: I forgive you for everything between the ages of two and seven.Greg to his niece Kate: When your mother was around nine years old, she refuses a second place ribbon in a science fair because she knew the kid who won had cheated. It was either first place for her or nothing. She always had to be right.Greg: What was that song that the old lady used to sing us to sleep with? It had fruits and apples in it.Claudia: Oh yes, she used to sing it to you — “Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me.”Claudia on ‘Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree’: My mother never sang it to me. My mother never sang anything to me, period. I used to hear her, though, singing it through the wall at Greg, singing him to sleep every night, while on the other side of the wall, I cried myself to sleep because I didn’t exist for my mother.1950Bobby James Ewing, date of birth: 16 Feb 1950Place of birth: Southfork Ranch, TexasBobby on Southfork: I was born in this house.Bobby on Southfork: It’s where I was brought up.Bobby: Southfork is the only home I’ve ever known.JR to John Ross: Your granddaddy used to tell me that Ewings pass down brains and brawn to their sons.Bobby: Maybe there are more of Mama’s genes in my blood, the Southworths, than there are Daddy’s.JR to Bobby: You were [Daddy’s] favourite from the day you were born.April Stevens to Bobby: You’ve been rich since the day you were born.Casey Denault on Southfork: People are born into a place like this, I guess. They sure are different from the rest of us.Lucy: That’s not true. Other than the fact they’ve got a lot of money, what’s so different?Casey: If you don’t know, I can’t explain it to you.JR: If anyone was born to be a Ewing, it’s you, Jenna.Abby Ewing (née Fairgate, ex-Cunningham): I wasn’t born rich, you know.Sid on Abby: When she was born, I was fourteen years old. Anne Matheson (née Winston): Me, the little rich girl who always had everything handed to her.Eric Thomas, attorney, to Anne: In the forty years Buchanan, Rondale & McKee handled your father’s business, we always gave him our utmost consideration. He even accused Mr Buchanan of being too conservative, but we thought it better to act on the side of caution.Donna: My mama and my grandmama always said that that [a dirty nappy] was the sign of a thriving little kid.Cliff: There was a girl between Pam and myself. She died before she was a year old and we never found out why.Pete Adams on Jason Ewing: 1950, he showed up in Oklahoma City married to a woman named Nancy Shaw.Miss Ellie: Jock always said that Jason was hopeless in the marriage department so I’m not surprised that he married late.Jamie: I hear tell that Mama did plan it some.Pete Adams on Nancy and Jason: She had some money which he used to set up another company which also went broke. He kept moving around after that. Angelica on Dimitri Marinos: Around 1950, a grubby little man by the name of Jason Ewing approached him with a get rich quick scheme. He wasn’t interested in Jason or his deal, but then he met Jason’s wife. Her name was Nancy Shaw Ewing. He fell in love with her and they had an affair while Jason was piecing together a deal. She became pregnant with his child. He wanted her to divorce Jason and marry him, but she wouldn’t. Despite Dimitri’s wealth, she was in love with Jason and actually, she was ashamed of her indiscretion. JR: What did Jason have to say about all this?Angelica: He never knew. Then they moved to Montana and Dimitri finally went back to Greece.Bobby, speaking about Ewing 23 in 1980: An old Ewing Oil field down in East Texas, shut down about thirty years ago. There was still a lot of oil down there. With prices so low back in those days, it wasn’t worth bringing it up.Jock: Back in those days, we had day workers working in the field, a lot of them.Richard Avery, speaking about Laura’s father Hank in 1980: He bought [his house] for a song thirty years ago.Hank, Laura’s father, speaking in 1980: You make ends meet by making ends meet.Richard: That was easy to say thirty years ago. You don’t support a family.Hank: I did, and I never owed one penny all that while.Val, speaking in 1979: I've never seen the ocean or an ocean beach in all my life.Val: All my life, I’d wanted to [see the ocean], even when I was little. I knew that the ocean would probably be the biggest and the most beautiful and most powerful thing I’d ever see. I thought just by being close to it, it would just make me better, make me think clearer and feel deeper and just know more.</blockquote>

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