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What was Russell's dark secret he admitted to Mary?


I'm sure we'll never know but I just wondered what anyone thought it was? That he cheated on her? That he kept her blood in a little vial around his neck?

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I thought it might have been that he was abused during his childhood.

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i dont think there was any secret we were supposed to guess at, could have been anything


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maybe the secret was jus to push the story along...what it was is no revelvance....not sure what thats called thou, but it is used in films-

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suganspice70, that's called a "Maguffin."

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Good freakin question never addressed in the film. The mind boggles.

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His parents made him sleep in the garage and bury his new born little brother, then one day he came home and caught his mom.........

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by - altpensacola on Wed Jul 8 2009 15:23:24

His parents made him sleep in the garage and bury his new born little brother, then one day he came home and caught his mom...

...wearing a Scooby-Doo costume and fellating the neighbour's cat. While standing there in shock and disbelief,...

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When he was a child, he killed his mother with a kaiser blade. Some folks calls it a sling blade, he calls it a kaiser blade, mm-hm.

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You just made me fall in love with you a little for that quote.

Now I'm going to pretend this never happened.

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His parents made him sleep in the garage and bury his new born little brother, then one day he came home and caught his mom...


...wearing a Scooby-Doo costume and fellating the neighbour's cat. While standing there in shock and disbelief,...


...his father came in with a tub of Vaseline and a cattle prod. Suddenly, and without warning....


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And he doesn't really like mustard.

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