:20:09
She liked that rocker.
:20:13
She seemed to have confided
a great deal in you, Miss Gordon.
:20:17
If she'd had her sons around her
:20:19
she wouldn't
have had to confide in strangers.
:20:22
She told me what fine men you were,
never forgetting her,
:20:25
sending her money, helping her
send Bud through school.
:20:29
She was so proud.
:20:31
Her tall sons for whom she kept making
up lies so she could hide her shame.
:20:37
Blamed Texas for taking her sons.
:20:41
Texas is a woman, she used to say,
:20:44
a big, wild, beautiful woman.
:20:47
You raise a kid
to where he's got some size,
:20:50
and there's Texas
whispering in his ear and smiling,
:20:54
saying, "Come and have some fun."
:20:56
"It's hard enough to raise children,"
she'd say.
:20:59
"But when you've got to fight Texas,
a mother hasn't a chance."
:21:03
That's why she pushed Bud. She let
Texas beat her with the rest of you.
:21:08
She was going
to see Bud through college or die.
:21:12
Well, she died.
:21:15
Miss Gordon, tell me, why did
she set so much store by this rocker?
:21:20
Your pa gave it to her. She wouldn't
have swapped it for a diamond ring.
:21:25
Thanks for being so nice to her.
:21:29
Nice to her? More like
she was nice to me, or anybody.
:21:34
She deserved better from her own.
:21:47
_ Miss Gordon...
_ I see you're still wearing your gun.