00:00Were you and Ellie close?
00:05Sometimes.
00:08But we weren't on the best of terms when she passed.
00:13Can you tell me about Ellie?
00:19She was bigger than life.
00:22She just...
00:25wanted more of it, all the time.
00:29She could not tell that child she couldn't do something.
00:35I remember I took her to the park.
00:39She was about five.
00:41And she was having none of that rinky-dinky kid play structure.
00:48She just marched right up to that big kid one.
00:53She pushed past all these ten-year-olds.
00:56And she climbed up to that double-decker jungle gym.
01:01You must have been terrified and a little proud.
01:06I was a lot proud.
01:08Until she decides she liked all the attention and she wouldn't come back down.
01:13Eventually ended up in a cast.
01:15Boy, she was a piece of work, that kid.
01:18She darn loved my life.
01:22I'm sorry I didn't mean to take you back there.
01:26I know everyone says it.
01:29But I do not know how you can lose a kid and keep going.
01:34You learn to breathe again.
01:38That's what it's like.
01:42Learning to breathe on some new planet.
01:44It's totally inhospitable to human life.
01:53And then somebody says, tell me about Ellie.
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