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Spite is a fine motivator for intimacy. At least for Raylan, who has an allergic reaction to expressing his thoughts, feelings, emotions, and for Boyd, who never has learned how to love without a siren ringing in his ears. Raylan and Boyd get married, because they love one another and genuinely want to spend the rest of their time together, until one or both of them inevitably die from pissing off the wrong person- who may still yet be the other. But they're bad at saying such things, so they find excuses, some spiteful pretense to put on paper. It's the same with the pie. Spite is a beautiful reason to bake a pie. As long as you can couch it correctly, you never have to say "I love you." After almost two decades of cohabitation and ritual and overt affection they forgot to hide behind something else, they aren't fooling anyone. Not even themselves.

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