It has only to do with Thomas and me. I suspect my appeal for him is my ability to ask the hard question and stand up to the hard answer. The first conversation, we cut right to the chase and have loved each other since. . . . We get together at an old filling station, which was converted to a diner. That is the extent of defiance Thomas and I can muster at this point in our lives because we are both real tired.
Some people get across life at the shallow end.
That lot wasn't given to Thomas or me. He went down in the real estate col-lapse of the '80s and working out that deep hole takes dogged determination more than anything else. However, dogged determination saps a hell of a lot of energy in the process. Like his daddy, though, he has a grand spirit and that marvelous sense of humor and it's the sense of humor that will save him in the end. I'm just worn out.