Is Woody Gilmore Only a Two-Timer

Is Woody Gilmore a Two-Timer

I came home really bamboozled today. I don't know what to make of this situation. I saw Ruby hanging out at the Durango Café with Woody Gilmore. I don't believe everything I hear but I was quite jarred. I've known Ruby a long time. She swore to me that she was through with Woody forever.

They never saw me in a back booth. I could hear them ordering chili verde just like old times, and Mexican beer, and Woody even improvised on a Patsy Cline song: "I've got your picture and he's got you."

They laughed and pretty soon they called the waitress to bring more cerveza and I kept remembering how Ruby looked when she heard Woody had gone back to his wife after being separated for years and she said she didn't want to see that two-timer any nearer to Hanford than Mobile, Alabama.

Yeah, I've heard that song before. What could have changed? Has Woody's wife died, or is he just what Ruby called him, a two-timer?

Notes

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McDaniel, Wilma. (2001) Borrowed Coats. Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, New York.
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