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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 166220" data-attributes="member: 22">Chapter 26At the dresser, JR held up the black nightie with one finger through a strap. ‘What the hell is this?’‘I th-thought I needed to change my image.’She didn’t like the way he laughed, not like it was funny but like he was making fun of her. ‘That’ll change your image, all right. Might as well write whore right across your forehead. I mean, that’s not you at all, Sue Ellen.’Something was pushing at her, the way her mama had pushed at her at first, when she was too scared to walk out on stage. ‘I don’t care. I figured I’d wear it tonight. Just - just once, anyhow.’‘Well, you figured wrong. Take that damned piece of trash back tomorrow. No, it’s better you don’t even show your face in that store again. Throw that thing away.’ JR moved towards the bathroom. ‘Goin’ to take me a shower.’Sue Ellen watched her hands rise to the top of her rope; it amazed her to see them open it. ‘JR – maybe you could postpone that shower?’Mouth open, he stared at her. ‘What’s gotten into you, girl? Cover yourself up; you’re hangin’ out.’‘JR,’ she said helplessly, ‘JR —‘‘You’re actin’ plain cheap,’ he said. ‘You’re my wife, and you’re actin’ like some Juarez whore. It must be Pamela, our trashy sister-in-law. Stay away from her, you hear?’‘I just wanted - oh God, I don’t know what I wanted! Somethin’ – more than we’ve got –  just a little bit more. I – I wanted us to laugh at night like they do, like Bobby and Pamela.’‘See,’ he said, ‘told you that woman had to do with you paradin’ around like a bitch in heat!’ JR flung off shirt and T-shirt, jerked open a drawer, his closet door. Clean top and shirt in hand, he whipped out into the hall and kicked that door shut behind him.Sue Ellen swayed right where she was for what seemed like a long time. Then she walked stiff-kneed to the dresser and picked up the black see-through nightie. Holding it against her face, she began to cry.</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?