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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 292674" data-attributes="member: 22">1959Lilimae: When I was growing up at home, there was a pair of identical twins, Candy and Mandy Snopes, and they always dressed alike. Years later when I was passing through, I saw them again. Well, they must have been in their thirties by then and there they were, walking down Main Street hand in hand, dressed in identical little polky-dot dresses.Val, speaking to Lynette, a waitress, in 1991: That expression you just used, “Makes no never mind” — I haven’t heard that since I visited some of my mama’s people in Muleshoe.Val to Lynette: My own mother, God bless her, she is the brightest person in the world, but she couldn’t read until she was older than you are now [late-twenties]. She just got tired of embarrassing herself and tired of feeling ashamed. So, at age thirty, she learned.Greg: When I was in high school, I used to work for a friend of Mack’s father. He used to frame houses. I got to be pretty good at it.Barbara, a nanny: I didn’t know you were a carpenter.Greg: Oh yeah, I’ve been just about everything. You name it, I’ve done it.Greg: I did my time at the White Castle. People came from miles around to watch me work.Abby: That explains your expertise with the ground chuck.Peter Hollister: My mother was a dancer, but [Paul Galveston] convinced her to quit and become his secretary.Sylvia Lean, Peter’s pretend mother, on Paul: He was a scoundrel and I trusted him.Sylvia on Paul: He was a scrapper, always looking for a fight. When he wanted something, he never rested until he got it. He was the same way with people, very charming when he wanted something or someone. He was a rugged-looking guy with a glint in his eye. We fought all the time, but in the end, he always got what he wanted.Greg on Paul: Pop did get around, you know.Sylvia, speaking in 1986: How can I remember every little detail — the exact date that Paul Galveston asked me to marry him?Sylvia: I would have made one terrific wife, but I screwed up. Never give a man what he wants until you get that ring.Mavis Anderson, mid-story: Actually, it was Ellie who was the matchmaker because she’d insisted that I come out to this party at Southfork and I said no, that I didn’t want to come there alone. I’d just been through a rather painful divorce.Punk: I’d already told Jock that I’d show up. Of course, I didn’t really want to start dating after my divorce and I just told him, I said, “Forget about finding an extra lady for me.” He said, “OK.”Miss Ellie: Well, he lied. Punk: Jock lied? All this time I just thought it was an accident!Miss Ellie: No, he lied but I put him up to it. I thought you and Mavis were so right for each other and I didn’t want to scare you off. Mavis was my best friend and I thought she deserved a wonderful man. Miss Ellie: Remember that hunting preserve in Cato Lake, on the Louisiana side? You used to hunt there a lot when the boys were small.Jock: A place called Landowne. Beautiful country. You could bag a dozen birds, just like that.JR, speaking about Landowne in 1979: I think it's been nearly twenty years since we hunted down here. JR: What was the name of that place up on the Arkansas/Louisiana border — one of those places Daddy used to take us?Bobby: Haleyville.JR: Real good hunting around there.Bobby: Boy, that was out in the middle of nowhere.JR: That’s why the hunting was so good.Bobby: What I liked best was when we’d go salmon fishing in Alaska.John Ross: Grandpa used to do everything with you, didn’t he?JR: Yeah, he sure did.Christopher: What about Uncle Ray — did he go with you?Bobby: Oh sure, when we were all in high school together, except for JR, of course. He was a lot older.JR: I tell you, Daddy and the three of us used to have some good old times, didn’t we?Lucy: What about Uncle Gary, huh?JR: Gary wasn’t into things like that. I remember the first time he had to bait his own hook he almost fainted! He was different from the rest of us. For one thing, he used to like to write poetry. Now can you imagine a real man who would rather write poetry than go hunting? Not me!Christopher on Gary: He and Uncle JR never got along good, did they?Bobby: They never saw eye to eye on a lot of things.Gary on a ranch of his own: Something I always wanted.Gary: I always pictured myself having a working ranch, raising a family, making toys for my children. Even when I was a little bitty kid, I imagined myself sitting at the fireplace, a couple of dogs by my side and children playing around me, and my wife …Val: Just darning your socks, huh?Gary: Yeah well, I was kind of young. Scotty Demerest, attorney: You were raised on a ranch. You must have fired a gun. Jenna: I’ve shot a rifle and I’ve shot shotguns. Bobby: There’s nothing wrong with guns. I grew up around guns.JR to Bobby: Remember that time when you got grounded for “borrowing” Daddy’s favourite shotgun? You swore up and down it wasn’t you, but Daddy said there was no point in lying because he found those extra shells in your room. Well, we both know it was me that planted those shells. Bobby to JR: You taught me how to use these guns [a hunting rifle, an over and under shotgun] when we were boys. I never thanked you for that. There were lots of things you taught me throughout my life I never thanked you for.Bobby to JR: I always loved you.JR to Bobby: I hope in the quiet place in your heart where the truth lives you know that my jealousy, as powerful as it was, was nothing compared to my love for you.JR: Bobby’s the only [brother] that mattered to me.Bobby to JR: I think we were the closest then before things changed, and circumstances, more times than not, put us on opposite sides of Ewing Oil. Bobby: I was butting heads with JR long before I came to Ewing Oil.JR to Bobby: All the fights, all the times butting heads with one another — I’m sorry we were never closer.Lucy: JR had always, always tried to keep my daddy and Bobby from getting too close to Grandpa. Miss Ellie on JR and Bobby: They’ve always been opposites, ever since they were children.Bobby, speaking about a business deal in 1982: I can’t go ahead without you and you know it.JR: Seems to be the story of your life.Bobby: You should have seen your Uncle JR when we were growing up.Christopher: Why — did he pick on you and tease you and stuff?Bobby: Well, he tried.Bobby to Christopher in 1989: I see you found my old dartboard. When I was your age, I had your Uncle JR’s picture on it.Karen: My mother used to say, “It’s all right to hate your brother from time to time as long as you love him with all your heart.”Joe Cooper, Karen’s brother: You are just as stubborn as ever.Karen: What are you talking about - stubborn? I’ve always been a pushover. I’m the peacemaker in the family.Karen, speaking about her son Michael in 1991: I was in his office not more than two minutes when you should have heard what was falling out of my mouth — from the glare on his computer screen to the cost of his jacket. If I were his age and I had a mother like that, I’d go crazy. I did have a mother like that.Mack, looking at his daughter Paige in 1989: Did you ever wear a dress like that going to your father’s house on a date? Karen: My father would have grounded me for a year! Karen: I used to hate it when my father made me dress up for home movies.Karen: I used to [watch one movie after another] in New York all the time.Sue Ellen: Maybe I saw too many Doris Day movies when I was growing up. She always seemed to know what to do in a romance.Jenna: She had a way of making things look easy.Sue Ellen: I’ve always been a romantic dreamer, sure that some man would always come around and sweep me off my feet.Judith Ryland: I have always been a proponent of reciprocity in all my relationships.Judith: I’ve always had an eye toward public service.Karen: My instincts have always been perfectly reliable.</blockquote>

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