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You did, Mel. 
Ennis' love for Jack lasted for decades and even after his death.
I found this review of the short story. I love what is says. The last part makes me sad.
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This is not a gay cowboy love story. Whilst love is a theme, and it is a grand, powerful love, at its heart Brokeback Mountain is a tragedy about the damage repressed sexuality can cause, not just to the two lovers, but to their families too. Ennis goes through life keeping people, including his soon ex-wife Alma and his two daughters, all at a distance, and even Jack, who gets closer than most, is held at arms length.
Ennis is fundamentally homophobic. He isn't bigoted, but he has no way of understanding what it means to be gay, no frame of reference on how to live a life like that knowing only the American West's hand-me-down definition of a man as a tight-lipped red-blooded cowboy, and as such he confines his sexuality to Brokeback, to the mountain where his love first emerged, and there it stays, isolated, lonely, and hardly ever spoken of.
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