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Cara Dutton : Can we speak, Elizabeth?
Elizabeth Strafford : Yes.
Cara Dutton : You know, I admire you. And the opportunities you've had. I regret not sending Jack back east for school. I feel sometimes that we've robbed him of countless experiences, all of which you've had. But what you haven't had, however, is an education about this way of life. You will miss more than weddings for cattle, my dear. If you give birth during calving season it will be a month before he sees his first child. If you give birth in the fall it will be even longer. You will stand knee deep in mud to help a sick foal. You will drive wagons through blizzards with hay for cattle and hear them screaming their gratitude when you approach. And you will be free in a way that most people can barely conceive. Now, if this is not the life you want, you must tell the boy now. Because you have to want more than the boy, you have to want the life, too. Because in this life, there's no debating which is more important: the wedding or the cattle. It's always the cattle.
