In Oregon, you don’t pump your own gas. A station attendant
has to do it for you. Before leaving Pendleton we pull into a 76 station.
Brenda, bright and cheerful, told us her
story…
She grew up on lake Erie and then moved to Bisbee
AZ, where she went to school with John Wayne Jr for a year. Her friends urged
her to go to Washington to get rich picking apples, so she did, but
instead, she says, she got rich another way: by meeting her husband of 32 years.
She took him back to Bisbee and one day he found a cowboy
hat in the Bisbee dump. Soon after, he was driving his truck wearing his new/old hat
and some film people in town noticed him. He came home and announced “Guess what—you’ll
never believe. I got a job in the movies, honey.”
They wanted Brenda and their child in the film too, so there
she is, in a 1988 movie of the week called “Jesse,” starring Lee Remick. People’s stories enchant me endlessly. Or as Jimmy Buffett says:
I wish that I could sit upon the bed in some motel
and listen to the stories it could tell
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