( he reaches out an' touches her shoulder, gentle an' soft. )
It's all right. I'll see him again one way or another. We Hicks boys, ah, we've got a queer relationship with death given the whole. You know. Al an' I've always been at odds.
( al was so hurt an' betrayed he went to new york. he did it for them, removin' a mouth to feed at the table an' makin' money to send home besides, but he never saw it like that. just abandonment, plain and simple, an' it was made worse by gene's goin' in the war. joinin' the marines the following year was his way of hittin' back hard enough to hurt. gene thinks a lot about that pic that time magazine ran of those dead soldiers on buna beach an' just how vicious an' violent the war's been in the pacific, but. al's tough. he's the consummate fighter of them all, an' he'll survive. he has to. )
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It's all right. I'll see him again one way or another. We Hicks boys, ah, we've got a queer relationship with death given the whole. You know. Al an' I've always been at odds.
( al was so hurt an' betrayed he went to new york. he did it for them, removin' a mouth to feed at the table an' makin' money to send home besides, but he never saw it like that. just abandonment, plain and simple, an' it was made worse by gene's goin' in the war. joinin' the marines the following year was his way of hittin' back hard enough to hurt. gene thinks a lot about that pic that time magazine ran of those dead soldiers on buna beach an' just how vicious an' violent the war's been in the pacific, but. al's tough. he's the consummate fighter of them all, an' he'll survive. he has to. )