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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 102264" data-attributes="member: 130">John Ross walks out on the balcony behind the house to find Lucy looking down at the pool.  “What’s up Luce?”“Just thinking about the pool.  How many people been thrown in it over the years.”“Yea we’ve had our share of family fights.” “We’ve been through so much.  So much we caused ourselves.  It never seems to stop.  Do you think we’ll ever get any peace in this family?” “When were dead Lucy.  In the mean time.”“That time your mother was in a mental institution, when we thought we lost Bobby.  It changed all of us.  Especially grandma.”“But we found our way back.”“Those year’s your father was broken, in the home, then comes out and cons everyone.  Then your Pamela.  How did you boys not know it was her?”“I knew it.  I told Chris, but he didn’t listen to me, until everything fell into place and neither could deny it.”“You still miss her?”“Ever day of my life.” “A bunch of women later and three children by three different mothers and you still can’t get over her.” “No one’s ever loved me Lucy.  No one.  She nearly died trying to be with me.”  “Lots of people love you, John Ross.  You were the most important person in the world to everyone of us when you were born.  It’s a shame we couldn’t make you feel it.”“And Mitch?”Giving him a dirty look with a half smile, she says, “I don’t want ta talk about it.”“What it means to be a Ewing, to love one person to obsession, never trusting they actually love you, hurting them over and over again.”“If your mother and father could love each other through all of that they put each other through.”“And Uncle Gary and Aunt Val.” “I’m glad Uncle Bobby finally found Aunt Pam.”“Me too.”  Lucy takes his arm, “You were on the phone a while this afternoon.”“Eves dropping?”“Of course.  Donna?”“Former Secretary of Energy.  Best lobbyist in D.C.”“Senator Judith Brown.” “More lobbying.”“I thought you were just a rancher.”“And I thought you were just a socialite.” “I’m a philanthropist too.”John Ross laughs, “I’m glad Uncle Bobby sold you half of South Fork and I’m glad you got a piece of Ewing Industries.”“Someone had to get in your way.  You were destroying the rest of the family bit by bit.   Which is something you don’t have to worry about with your kids.  I’ve never seen kids so fiercely loyal to each other.”“We did a good job didn’t we Luce?  They’re good kids.” “I wouldn’t go that far.  But they’re family.  Ain’t no one going to tear them apart.”“I hope you’re right.  I just wish they’d find something beside business and politics to occupy their time.”“Just like their daddy.  Give ‘em time.  They will.  Speaking of such, why are you lobbying in Washington?”“Oh nothing important.”“Last time I heard about someone in this family lobbying Congress it was 2010, the year without an estate tax, and JR mysteriously died.” “Oh don’t be so glum, Lucy.  I’m not going anywhere.”“Glum?  Me?  Don’t you know John Ross, rich folks are always happy.”</blockquote>

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