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Jack : All this time and you ain't found nobody else
to marry?
Ennis : I’ve been puttin'
the blocks to a good-lookin' little
gal over in Riverton. She's a waitress. Wants to go
to nursing school or somethin'. I don't know. What
about you and Lureen?
Jack : Lureen's good at making hard deals in the
machinery business, but as far as our marriage goes,
we could do it over the phone. I kind of got this
thing going with a ranch foreman's wife over in
Rutters.
Ennis : What?
Jack : I'm bound to get shot by Lureen or her husband
each time I slip off
to see her.
Ennis : Yeah. You probably deserve it.
Jack : Tell you what. The truth is… sometimes I miss
you so much, I can hardly stand it.
Jack : I guess I'll head up on to Lightning Flat. See
the folks
for a day or two.
Ennis : There's somethin' I been meanin' to tell you,
bud. Well, it's likely November before I can come
out here again. After we ship stock and before winter
feedin' starts again.
Jack : November. What in the hell ever happened to
August?
Ennis : Well....
Jack : Christ, Ennis. You know, you had a fucking
week to say some little word about this. Why is it
we're always in the friggin' cold? We ought to go
south where it's warm, you know! We ought to go to
Mexico.
Ennis : Mexico? Hell, Jack, you know me. About all
the travelin' I ever done is around a coffee pot,
looking for the handle. Come on, Jack.
Lighten up on
me. We can hunt in November. Kill us a nice elk.
I'll try if I can get Don Wroe's cabin again. We had
a good time that year, didn't we?
Jack : There's never enough time, never enough. You
know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of an
unsatisfactory situation. You used to come away
easy. Now it's like
seein' the Pope.
Ennis : Jack, I got to work. Huh? In
them earlier days, I'd just quit the
job. You... You forget what it's like be in' Broke
all the time. You ever hear of
child support?
I'll tell you this, I can't quit this one and I
can't get the time off. It was hard enough gettin'
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