Claim: Raymond Carver appeared in "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?", enrolled in the library science and he relocated to Dallas.
Evidence: Gallagher later remembered feeling "as if my life until then had simply been a rehearsal for meeting him." Beginning in January 1979, Carver and Gallagher lived together in El Paso, Texas, in a borrowed cabin near Port Angeles, Washington, and in Tucson, Arizona. In November 1977 Carver met the poet Tess Gallagher at a writers' conference in Dallas, Texas.