"Little did I realize that what began in the alleys and backways of this quiet town would end in the Badlands of Montana."

"He was handsomer than anybody I'd ever met. He looked just like James Dean."

"Somebody dropped a bag on the sidewalk. Everybody did that, the whole town'd be a mess."

"Kit went to work in the feedlot while I carried on with my studies. Little by little we fell in love. As I'd never be…"

"Name's Carruthers. Believe I shoot people every now and then. Not that I deserve a medal."

"In the stench and slime of the feedlot, he'd remember how I looked the night before, how I ran my hand through his ha…"

"And as he lay in bed, in the middle of the night, he always heard a noise like somebody was holding a seashell agains…"

"Did it go the way it was supposed to?...Is that all there is to it?...Gosh, what was everybody talking about?...Well,…"

"Kit made a solemn vow that he would always stand beside me and let nothing come between us. He wrote this out in writ…"

"My mother died of pneumonia when I was just a kid. My father had kept their wedding cake in the freezer for ten whole…"