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Oskar: How old are you?
Eli: Twelve... more or less.
Eli: What about you?
Oskar: Twelve years, eight months and nine days. What do you mean, "more or less"?
Oskar: When's your birthday?
Eli: I don't know.
Oskar: Don't you celebrate your birthday? Your parents... they've got to know.
Eli: [Eli looks down on the ground]
Oskar: Then you don't get any birthday presents, do you?
Eli: No.
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Eli: [standing outside the door] You have to invite me in.
Oskar: What happens if I don't? What happens if you walk in anyway?
[feels the air between himself and Eli]
Oskar: Is there something in the way?
Karin Bergquist
Extended Reading
