Then maybe you shouldn't live like you're going to have to let us go.

[There's something less than confident in the way he says it, but that's only because it's hard to believe that Eddie had gotten so disenchanted. Three years could really change a person though, he knew it intimately. What he'd kept, he retained because of the other losers because of what he did remember and associate. He was ahead of the curve too, but that didn't pay off for him specifically in the end.]

That's no way to live, Ed. I know I'm probably not the first to tell you that.