Raymond Carver appeared in "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?", enrolled in the library science and he relocated to Dallas.
Gallagher later remembered feeling "as if my life until then had simply been a rehearsal for meeting him." Beginning in January 1979, Carver and Gallagher lived together in El Paso, Texas, in a borrowed cabin near Port Angeles, Washington, and in Tucson, Arizona. In November 1977 Carver met the poet Tess Gallagher at a writers' conference in Dallas, Texas. 
