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-Continued…- Doctor: The stab wound isn’t as deep as we first thought, but she is still in critical condition due to the amount of blood that she has lost. Cody: *Crying softly* She’ll be okay though, right?! Doctor: We had to put her into a medically induced coma to give her time to stabilize and strengthen herself again, but we’re not sure if she will make it… Demi: *Sobbing hysterically into Cody’s shoulder* Cody: Can we see her? *Holding back tears; trying to stay strong for Demi* Doctor: *Nods* Room 76C down the Hall… I am very sorry. *Leaves* Cody: Do you wanna see her by yourself, Dems? *Rubs her back* Demi: *Nods slowly; standing up and leaving, entering Selena’s room and breaking down in tears again* www.flickr.com (I love this picture!) Demi: *Sits down on the chair by the side of the bed, taking her hand in her own and intwining her fingers with Selena’s* You know… you look just like you’re sleeping, which is probably why I’m finding this so hard! But, baby… you just take your time and wake up when you can, okay? I don’t want you to leave, Sel! *Kisses her hand, tears falling* I love you… so, so much! Selena: *No response* -Knock On The Door- Demi: Come in… *Not taking her eyes off of Selena* Cody: *Walks in* Sorry… I can’t… not be here. *Sees Selena and the tears he’d been holding back came all at once; falls onto the couch in tears* Demi: *Hugs him with her free hand, both of them crying together* Cody: S-She looks j-just li-like sh-she’s sl …
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The dance battle at the end of You Got Served. The Song being played is Pump It Up, by Joe Budden.
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Music video by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers performing Mary Jane’s Last Dance. (C) 1993 Geffen Records
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Duane’s Depressed (Last Picture Show Trilogy)

Larry McMurtry’s “funny and brutal” (New York Times) landmark novel The Last Picture Show introduced the shrinking oil-patch town of Thalia, Texas, and its teenaged residents Duane, Sonny, and Jacy. In Texasville, the trio grew up to “adultery and madness, bankruptcy and boom times,” (New York Daily News). Now McMurtry takes his most colorful characters into their twilight years — in an unforgettable end to the Thalia saga.

Surrounded by his children, all of whom are going through tumultuous transitional times; his promiscuous wife, Karla, who is with her own demons; and his friend Sonny, who seems to be dying, Duane can’t make sense of his life anymore. The stark realization that he has spent his whole life in a miserable dust-bowl town throws him into a protracted end-of-life crisis — one that will hurtle him toward unexpected love, profoundly affect old friends, and cause him to embark on outlandish new beginning.

McMurtry’s strongest and most appealing contemporary novel since Terms of Endearment, Duane’s Depressed is utterly unsentimental, often hilarious, sometimes tragic and shocking, and in the end full of hope.At 62, ever-dependable oil man Duane Moore ditches his pickup and starts walking everywhere–deeply deviant behavior in one-stoplight Thalia, Texas. “It occurred to him one day–not in a flash, but through a process of seepage, a kind of gas leak into his consciousness–that most of his memories, from his first courtship to the lip of old age, involved the cabs of pickups,” Larry McMurtry writes. Yet oddly enough, Duane’s marriage, four children and nine grandchildren, his career highs and lows, all occurred when he was nowhere near his vehicle. Within days he has moved into his cabin on a hill, reacquired his dog, Shorty the Sixth (“an air of slight guilt was typical of all the Shortys”), and begun to think on these things. Of course, this brings on an additional problem: “He realized that for the first time in his life he had too much time to think; of course he had wanted more time to think, but that was probably because he hadn’t realized how tricky thinking could be.”

Luckily for readers, Duane’s attempts to go off the grid are far from successful. Thus do we have the deep pleasures of his comical and complex encounters with his wife, Karla, and family, not to mention some of Thalia’s singular citizens. As ever, McMurtry’s dialogue and narration snaps and surprises. He makes his hero’s solitude, and his increasing depression, infinitely intriguing. Will Duane’s attempts to literally and figuratively cultivate his garden succeed? Will he forge his way through the three volumes of Proust that his attractive new psychiatrist has prescribed in lieu of Prozac? Will the catfish that has found its way into his waterbed survive? Answers to these and many other questions await you in Duane’s Depressed, the final book of the marvelous trilogy McMurtry began with The Last Picture Show and Texasville. Let us pray that it turns into a quartet: we need far more of Duane and his family. For a start, his granddaughter Barbi–”a dark midge of a child”–merits a volume of her own. –Kerry Fried

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