After Loretta and her husband Doolittle have the fight in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter, in the next scene, she's back in wherever they're staying - a hotel, or a house, in Nashville. She's alone, looking sad and upset. She's sorry about the fight.
He comes in, with his wrist bandaged - he has been to the emergency room....
He has been thinking.
He sits in a chair and says, "Babe, what I think I'm gonna do is get me a job somewhere, drivin' a truck, or bein' a mechanic, or doin' something that I'm - good at."
Loretta: "You're good at managing me.
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you."
Doolittle: "Gettin' here is one thing, and bein' here's another. My job's done, baby, I'll just get me another one."
Loretta: "Doo, if it's gonna break us up, honey, I'll quit."
Doolittle: "Successful people don't quit, baby."
She lowers her head, her hand to her forehead.
He says, "You got another one of your headaches, don't you?"
Then he gets up and walks over to her and holds out his hand with a wedding ring on one finger. We, the audience, see it but Loretta doesn't see it because her face is cradled in her hand - she is not looking up.
He speaks her name and she looks up and sees the ring.
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When they got married, he had some money, saved from working in the coal mine in Kentucky, but they didn't have gigantic amounts of money so he didn't spend on a wedding ring.
In the movie we see, a couple of times through the early years, he asks her what she wants for a present, for anniversary and what-not, and she says a wedding ring. At that time, he thinks it's a waste of money and at one anniversary he goes to the pawn shop to find a ring and ends up buying her a guitar instead....
But now, after the fight, he makes the point that he loves her and wants to make things right between them by getting her the ring.
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