Several years later, on April 29, Ginny's 39th birthday, Ty stops at the Perkins. He dawdles over breakfast and comes back to take her to lunch at the Wendy's across the street. Ginny notices that Ty looks like one of the settled men she's seen over the last few years, those who have come to think that their way of thinking is normative and should be catered to by everyone else (what's taken as the "premier" sign of masculinity and maturity). Ty, however, is not settled but headed for a big hog operation in Texas, where he hopes to land a job: like a lot of other farmers, the bank did not give him a loan that year (he signed his acres over to Rose). Ty states what's presumably his real.....
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