Enconters

ELLIOT: No. I couldn't live without you. But I couldn't live with myself knowing that was true.
DAVID: I would have saved you. I would have saved you over and over again.
ELLIOT: You couldn't save me from across the Atlantic.
DAVID: I wish I could. I wish I did.
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ELLIOT: I'm sorry David.
DAVID: Losing you was the hardest thing I ever did, and I had to lose you twice.
ELLIOT: I was already gone David. When I left you, I was long gone.
DAVID: Why didn't you come back? Why didn't you just come home?
ELLIOT: I hated myself, I hated who I was. I was a terrible husband, I was a terrible son. I was a
terrible friend.
DAVID: You were my best friend.
ELLIOT: I know.
DAVID: I had to find out from my parents, Elliot. It was my mam who told me what happened.
ELLIOT: I'm sorry David.
DAVID: She kept going on about the poor wife this and the poor wife that. She didn't know that it
was killing me.
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ELLIOT: I'm sorry. I can't change it, I wish I could.
DAVID: I wish I could too. I wish that every single day.
ELLIOT: You need to stop wasting your wishes on me.
DAVID: I have. Time passes, things change.
ELLIOT: Time passes yet here I am, still eighteen years old. You're still eighteen in your mind.
You haven't let yourself move on.
DAVID: I have. I've had a successful career. I've done a lot with my life.
ELLIOT: Then why can't you finish your novel? Explain that to me.
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