Oh, [He laughs, awkwardly.] I guess I did, didn't I? That wine made my brain so cloudy that I forgot I did that. I think maybe through it all I wanted to make sure you were okay.

...Maybe we're here because it's fate's way of us that it wasn't our time to go yet.

[He's quiet, thoughtful, before he says a lingering thought out loud.]

Like our dads wanted us to keep living.