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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 285515" data-attributes="member: 22">1955Amos Krebbs: I’ll admit I ain’t made much of my life.Clayton Farlow on Rebecca: She scratched her way over the tough side of the tracks. Practically taught herself how to read. John Mackey to Pam: Your mother was a very clever woman. She knew she wouldn’t get what she wanted out of life by waiting tables so when she got to Houston, she put herself through a good secretarial school where she learned stenography, typing, that sort of thing, and she was good at it. Lilimae: I was touring with Alfonso the Great. I was his magician’s assistant. He wrote a song about me called ‘Lili’. [Sings:] “There was never was a girl like Lili, Lili with the bright gold hair …”Joshua Rush, speaking about reading 'Nashville Junction' in 1984:  All of sudden at the end, when she leaves to join Alfonso the Great, I started to cry.Val: Aunt Edna put me on a bus and I rode all the way to Nashville, all by myself. I went to the theatre where Mama was playing. She was an assistant to a magician, Alfonso the Great. I remember the theatre smelt old and dirty, and it was mostly empty. When I was backstage to see her, she was in this terrible flurry. She had to run across town and audition an act of her own. She didn’t invite me along. She didn’t even ask me to stick around so that we could talk later. I was just in the way. So I took the next bus back to Aunt Edna and I lied about what a wonderful time I’d had. Val: I was taught not to burn any bridges.Greg: When I was twelve years old, I sold my entire mercury dime collection to buy a couple of girly magazines. I shudder to think what those dimes would be worth today.Mack: And the magazines wouldn’t even be considered soft porn today.Greg: I started pumping gas. Anything to make a buck.Andy, gas station owner, in 1991: Ain’t you never pumped your own gas before?JR: Not since I was a kid.JR, looking round Andy’s self-service gas station in 1991: If I remember correctly, it used to be called Harley’s. Had a big old wooden garage right over there. My daddy would bring us boys down here on Saturdays and we’d watch the mechanic give a lube job and an oil change. My daddy would swap stories with Mr Harley. They were good times.Bobby on gas distributor Brady York: Brady's been doing business with Ewing Oil for years. He's an old friend of my daddy's.JR on Jock: He’s the only person to ever call me Junior and I was damn proud of that.JR: No-one’s called me Junior since I was sixteen.Dr Wexler, psychiatrist: So you’re a Junior?JR: I was.Dr Wexler: Did that bother you when you were growing up — being a Junior, living in your father’s shadow? JR: What’s that got to do with anything?Dr Wexler: Was your father a successful man?JR: You’re damn right he was, the most successful independent oilman in the southwest. Dr Wexler: Big footsteps for you to follow in.JR: My daddy was like a god to me.De Wexler: And made you feel inferior by comparison?JR: No, not inferior. I just wanted to make him proud of me and I think I did, most of the time.Wallace Windham, speaking in 1985: [The papers pertaining to his sale of Ewing Oil to Jock] got burned up in a warehouse fire about thirty years ago along with a lot of other stuff of mine.Bank clerk to Bobby: This is the original [safety deposit] box taken out by your grandfather in 1934. According to the records on file, this box has been unopened since before Mr Southworth’s death.Bobby: When I was just a little boy.Bobby, looking through the box: That was Grandpa’s prize pistol. Mama’s birth certificate. Uncle Garrison’s discharge [papers] from the army. And a whole bunch of hunting licences.Christopher: A mineral rights trust.Gary on his gun: It was my grandfather’s. I inherited it.Miss Ellie, speaking in 1984: Your company headquarters have been established in Houston for years.Clayton: Almost thirty years.Aunt Ginny: I visited California in the fifties. I used to listen to Ginsberg read poetry at City Lights.Ginny on her friend Jeri Madux: We really had some gay old times together.Bobby: I remember when Reagan was a Democrat.1956Mack: The only subject I was advanced in was civics and they didn’t have advanced civics back then.Mack: My father never came to anything I was in — no play, games, graduation. I was a varsity two letterman. Did he ever see me play? No.Mack: I was mixed up.Karen: But your father wasn’t beating you?Mack: No, of course not, not like that.Karen: What did your father do to you?Mack: He got mad, let off steam, you know.Karen: You mean he yelled at you.Mack: He was under a lot of pressure to put food on the table. He did the best he could. I didn’t get along with my dad. Pete Mackenzie: We haven’t had an easy time of it, lad. I used to knock you around.Mack: Big deal. Didn’t hurt that much.Pete: It hurt plenty!Mack: But hitting was done then. Nowadays, everybody knows that you shouldn’t hit your kids, but back then, not everybody knew.Mack: When I was fifteen, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know enough to run away.Mack: Maybe you weren’t that bad after all, huh?Pete: I think I was.Mack: When I got older and realised it wasn’t normal to be beaten up by your old man, I felt ashamed because I didn’t want anyone to know what my dad was like and I sure as hell didn’t want pity. I made up lies to strangers and friends, and excuses to myself, and I was hoping and praying that it would stop, that just once he would say he loved me and that he was proud of me. Mack on Pete: It’s hard for me to say out loud that he abused me and it was wrong, and he was wrong.Sue Ellen: My father was an alcoholic.Sue Ellen: I hated the smell of alcohol. I hated everything it represented.Gary: I was fourteen the first time I got drunk. One Saturday night, I sat down and I had three sixteen-ounce cans of beer and got drunk as a skunk, sick as a dog. Threw up all over the place. Swore to God I’d never do it again. Next Saturday night — boom — right back out there. And the next. Everybody was doing it. I never drank to get high, I always drank to get drunk. I was out of control from the beginning, but out of fear — or hope — I couldn’t admit it to myself. One of the symptoms of my [alcoholism] is to deny that I even have a problem, so I just kept on. I wouldn’t listen to anyone. No-one could tell me anything. I knew better than anyone else.Gary: I used to drink to feel like a man.Richard Avery: Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I was brought up to believe a man takes care of his family or he's not a man.Richard on sexual equality: I wasn’t brought up that way. None of us was.Miss Ellie: I’ve known Jenna almost all her life. She and her daddy were friends of ours.Jenna Wade: I used to live on a ranch not more than three miles down the road [from Southfork].Jenna, speaking in 1984: It’s taken me a long time to come five miles.Bobby: That’s how far it was from Lucas Wade’s ranch to [Southfork].Jenna on Jock: I liked that man.JR: I’ve always liked Jenna.JR to Jenna: We always did agree on things, didn’t we?JR on Jenna: She was more like us than Pam ever was.Bobby: Jenna, I’ve known you all my life.Jock on Bobby: He and Jenna grew up together.Bobby on him and Jenna: We've been friends since we were kids. I used to be in love with her.Cliff on Jenna: Bobby’s first love. Bobby: There’s always something real special about first love.Jenna: All I ever dreamed about when I was growing up was being married to you. I loved you so much.Mavis Anderson to Bobby and Jenna: I’ve heard you two you were inseparable. Jenna: Insufferable is more like it! JR on Bobby: He was never very famous for his smarts.Jenna: Neither was I.JR: Bobby was always a fool, stubborn as a mule.Harris Ryland to his mother Judith: You always told me that I was stubborn. Well, you were right.Christopher on Jock: Did he ever go along with you when you were out with a girl?Bobby: I can’t remember him being there.Miss Ellie, speaking about Jenna in 1984: Bobby used to ride his horse down to her ranch when he wasn’t much older than John Ross is now [five].Jenna: When Bobby and I were kids, he used to ride his horse over to see me, and a couple of years later, it was a motorcycle, and then after that a convertible. Charlie, Jenna’s daughter: He came to see you a lot.Jenna: Whenever he could sneak away from his chores. He never liked to work much then.Charlie: He must have really been in love with you to keep coming around like that.Jenna: We were in love with each other.Punk Anderson on Bobby and Jenna: These two were destined to be together ever since they was kids. I remember me, Jock and Lucas Wade talking about it when we used to hunting together. Y’all weren’t even up to our belt buckles. As soon as our backs was turned, they were always getting into some kind of devilment.Jenna on Lucas and Jock: Their faces when they saw us up on their prize two-year-olds!Bobby: What about my face when I saw Daddy standing there when I got down? I didn’t think we’d get caught.Jenna: Who do you think told on us anyway?Bobby: I still think it was the stable boy. He could have seen us, told your daddy. Your daddy told my daddy.Jenna: Who won that race? You or me?Bobby: I don’t remember.Bobby to Jenna: You always were unpredictable. If I took my eyes off you for a second, you’d be out of sight.Miss Ellie: Jenna Wade was never stoical in her life.Ray: Guts is one thing Jenna Wade never lacked.Bobby: I never cared too much for Marco Polo.Jenna: That’s because you never played with me.Bobby: We used to play it all the time.Bobby on making a big enough splash when diving: I had to make it go to the roof when I was a kid or they wouldn’t let me in scouts.Cliff: I was an eagle scout.Pam: No, you weren’t.Cliff: I wanted to be.Greg: I still have my boy scouts’ merit badge in first aid.Charlie on her father, Naldo Marchetta: He learnt to ski when he was really little. His daddy taught him.John Mackey on Rebecca: When she graduated [from secretarial school], she landed herself a job with the brokerage firm of Wentworth and Pitts. She was good, efficient, and her looks didn’t hurt either. Katherine Wentworth, Rebecca’s daughter, on Wentworth Tool and Die: That was my father’s very first company. John Mackey on Rebecca: After a while, she found her way into the office of the President himself, Mr Wentworth, and became his executive secretary. One thing led to another and, some time after that, he asked her to marry him.Rebecca: I never divorced Digger. I was afraid that if I tried, he’d find me and drag me back to that awful life.John Mackey: Rebecca Barnes Burke became Mrs Rebecca Wentworth. Rebecca: I saw a chance for happiness and I took it. I led a comfortable life, happily married to a man I adore.Clayton on Rebecca: She was married to a very dear friend of mine.Clayton: An old friend of mine owned Dallas’s finest finishing school for young ladies.Val: I had the whooping cough and I had to stay home from school. My mama stayed with … wait a minute, it wasn’t my mama, it was my Aunt Edna. She was pretty. She had beautiful eyes. She was very kind. She never got married though.Laura to Karen: You’re the best friend I ever had — except for maybe Evelyn Bater in the third grade.</blockquote>

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