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Question 1

ELIAS: We left the checkout line and we… we found him… walking-wandering aimlessly in the vegetable aisle. No cookies. He was… he was so…

Answer 1

He was so… lost. We asked what he was doing and he said he was looking for the canola oil? He didn’t have the cookies, and… we asked where they were…

Question 2

ELIAS: He couldn’t remember… he couldn’t remember where to find them. They were literally all he ate and he-he couldn’t…remember

Answer 2

And that was just the start. We noticed little things after that. His hitting was way off at baseball practices…we wrote the shopping list once and… his handwriting… we could barely read it.

Question 3

OPHELIA: Oh my god. You knew. You - you knew.

Answer 3

Well, yes, we-

Question 4

OPHELIA: How… how could you? Wh-why didn’t one of you say anything? Anything?! We could’ve done something sooner!

Answer 4

We… were going to. But then… we just… it was too late

Question 5

ELIAS: We know. We failed him.

Answer 5

I can…barely…live with myself

Question 6

ELIAS: Don’t you think I know that?

Answer 6

If we had just… just sad something. Right after that shopping trip

Question 7

ELIAS: Well what are we supposed to do now huh? The truth’s out.

Answer 7

Listen to Ophi, I guess.

Question 8

ELIAS: Right. The cookies. God, he loved those things. Hell, we should’ve put a box of ‘em in his casket.

Answer 8

Okay…a little dark… but I guess there’s some truth to that.

Question 9

OPHELIA: Y-yeah… I-I guess… y-you’re right. I…. he-

Answer 9

Maybe that was too far, Elias

Question 10

ELIAS: Oh come on, after the bomb we just dropped?

Answer 10

Is everything okay Ophelia?

Question 11

OPHELIA: We had brought some to the hospital and… and… and they were almost gone… and he had one… one! … and then… and then I ate the rest! And then he asked if there were anymore.. and I said no… and he said it was fine… but I could see…

Answer 11

See what, Ophelia?

Question 12

OPHELIA: He knew he wasn’t gonna eat one ever again! They were his favorite thing in the whole world.

Answer 12

Oh… you know we weren’t being serious before.

Question 13

OPHELIA: Yes you were. Don’t try to protect me!

Answer 13

I’m not. I’m telling the truth. It’s about time.

Question 14

ELIAS: Well, he really did-

Answer 14

Seriously? I’m sure Alphie wasn’t that upset over it

Question 15

OPHELIA: But… what if he hated me for it?

Answer 15

Ophelia, there wasn’t an ounce of hate in his body. He… he didn’t hate anyone

Question 16

ELIAS: Yeah… he was… kind of a saint

Answer 16

He loved you, you know that, right?

Question 17

OPHELIA: Yes. I-I do.

Answer 17

Good.

Question 18

OPHELIA: Wh-what?

Answer 18

Yeah, we do, don’t we?

Question 19

ELIAS: Oh, 100%

Answer 19

Of course we do

Question 20

OPHELIA: But…but with everything…

Answer 20

He ate those things whenever life was good, you know, holidays, birthdays, parties that had no gluten free deserts, baseball……… the universe has taken a part of us, something irreplaceable

Question 21

ELIAS: A part that loved these fucking cookies!

Answer 21

And we may never get that part back but we can protect what we do have.

Question 22

OPHELIA: So we can get the fucking cookies?

Answer 22

Look what we’ve done Eli