Later in their darkened upper room in the tentative love scene, they share a few memories of their childhood and he offers her a loving hought before she departs:Judah: If you were not a bride, I should kiss you goodbye.She retaliated with her own brief affair with a timid Iowa bank officer Sam Burns (John Lithgow).Meanwhile, middle-aged Aurora was dodging the womanizing flirtations of her next-door neighbor, a boozy, beer-bellied, over-the-hill, former astronaut Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson), even though she had turned 50 and was now free to date.] The reporter locates Stark in small Kanoma City (in Kanoma County) in an unnamed state - "a typical hot, dusty, backwoods county seat," speaking outside to a group of citizens and rallying for them to vote for him as County Treasurer.Without any expression of emotion or grief, Geoff reacts with matter-of-fact orders to "get he wagon, take along a big pair of shears in case you have to cut him out.