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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DallasFanForever" data-source="post: 385450" data-attributes="member: 13221">I’m not really sure but it was definitely a sad story. Miss Ellie (the Donna Reed version) summed it up best I thought when she described her as “lost in time” or something to that effect. In that season Amanda actually ended up having a very significant purpose, as without her Ewing Oil might’ve been lost to the Barnes family. I’m not so sure what he had done was redeeming in the eyes of many back then. These kinds of things were viewed much differently. Miss Ellie, at first, struggled with it when he told her. Of course she was dealing with her own very serious issues at the time but once she met Amanda she ended up understanding better that Jock really had no choice but to put Amanda in a place where she could get the help she needed. I want to say it was stated that he did but I’m not sure if that continued after Ellie met her. He did pay for all her costs though. Good question! Perhaps when he was in South America writing letters to Miss Ellie would’ve been a good time to slip it in there. Of course, telling her in person would’ve probably been better. Imagine if he put it in the will and that’s how everyone found out. Would’ve been a nice twist. Or maybe the conversation goes something like this in 1986.............“Hey Wes, where did you get these letters?” “Oh, those letters are mine Ellie. Always have been, and since you’ve mentioned it there’s one there about a first wife I had. Her name was Amanda. Would you like to take a trip right now to go meet her?” Different times. Jock was, well, he was Jock. It wasn’t something he was going to bring up until he had to. He probably knew he would have to one day, but he wasn’t going to rush it if he didn’t have to. Interesting idea!  “Another termite coming out of the woodwork looking for a piece of the family couch,”  as I’m sure J.R. would’ve put it. Maybe, although I wouldn’t call her Dallas’s most forgetful. I’ll give her credit, despite her type of illness and thinking Bobby was Jock she still remembered where those documents were. That always impressed me.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?