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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ray&amp;Donna" data-source="post: 43270" data-attributes="member: 42">Thanks, everyone!  The story continues...<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />***Ray rode out to the fence at the end of the ranch, along the Braddock Road.  Braddock was where he’d spent countless nights drinking, where he’d met Donna, where he received his mail.  And yet it had always been a mystery to him.  Sometimes he felt like Donna was a mystery to him, too.  She seemed able to read him, know every emotion he was feeling, just by looking at his face.  She knew him inside and out, knew all his faults, his failings, his self-destructive need to prove himself—and yet she still loved him, still stuck by him.  Until, finally, he had cut her too deep.  He thought back to his dream—a life without her, without their child, a life so miserable he thought about leaving Southfork.  No matter how real it had seemed, he couldn’t believe that could ever be him—and yet, at this moment, it was. Last night he had let her back in to his life, and she had opened her heart up to him.  Their problems didn’t seem the same anymore.  He knew he’d have to learn to compromise, learn to be more flexible—he couldn’t bend her to fit an ideal in his mind, he had to let her be herself, the woman he’d fallen in love with all those years ago.  It all sounded so easy.  He knew they might never completely fit into each other’s worlds—but dammit, they could be happy together.  And it could be sooner rather than later.  She was too important to him to let her out of his life.***Donna walked back into Southfork, somewhat hopeful, but the house seemed to be empty.  Her mind was still in a fog over what Ray had said.  She didn’t know what had gotten into him, but she liked it and she realized how much she missed talking with him.  As she walked into the front hall, she heard the phone ring; since she didn’t see Teresa anywhere, she went to answer it.“Hello?”A familiar voice spoke next.  “Donna?  It’s Dave.”She smiled—he’d been so busy that they hadn’t been able to talk much lately. “Hi Dave.  How are things in Washington?”“Right now, pretty good.  How are things with you?”“Well, a bit better than the last time we talked.”  She paused for a moment.  “I just found out I’m pregnant.”“That’s great.  Did you tell Ray?”“I did. We’re still not back together, but we’ve been talking some more.”“That’s good to hear.  Listen, I have a favor to ask of you.  I’m flying in this weekend, and I was wondering if you could come with me to a meeting?”Donna chewed on her lower lip as she pondered it.  “Well, I think I could do that.  What’s the topic?”“It’s a meeting on the impact of the oil business in Texas.  They’re going to bring a panel together of independents to discuss its influences, both good and bad.”Donna froze.  She’d pulled back from the oil business and politics lately, to try to sort out her life.  She wasn’t sure if she wanted to drag herself back into it just now.“Donna?  Are you still there?”  Dave startled her from her thoughts.“Yes, I’m still here.  Let me give it some thought, okay?” “Sure thing.  I’ll see you this weekend, either way.”“Okay.  Goodbye, Dave.”“Bye.”She placed the receiver of the phone in its cradle.  This was the kind of thing that, in the past, she would jump headfirst into, and ask Ray to be by her side.  Now, though, she didn’t know what to do.  Maybe Ray was different now.  Maybe they were both different now.  She remembered that, once upon a time, Sam Culver had told her she could accomplish anything she set out to do.  Now she wondered if that were truly possible.</blockquote>

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