I Adam said you answer questions.
E Try me.
I Why did you eat the fruit?
E Next question.
I Okay, did you have daughters?
E Of course.
I What was one of their names?
E Shorty. That’s what we called her, a nickname, I suppose. She was not tall.
I Where did you sleep?
E At first, under a bush, near the river. Later, we tried a cave. It had good and bad points.
I Like what?
E It could get cold. Adam got sheep skins. That was a lot of work. I sewed four together. The spiders liked to surprise us.
I Did you block the entry?
E We tried many rocks with one big one for a door. It was too heavy for me to move. Adam would push it at night to close it up.
I I heard the spider liked it.
E I don’t know why. Because we let the dog in? He was jealous? I gave him a good talking to. Then it indicated it was a female.
I Did that matter?
E To her, I guess.
I Okay, another subject, Naming. Did Adam name everything?
E Not really. Just the animals. I named the fruit. Apples, grapes, oranges, and the nuts, pecans, pecans, Brazil nuts.
I Brazil nuts?
E Got you on that one!
I You have a sense of humor.
E You have to, so much sadness. Adam would come in from the field and say, “Just look at my brow!” “Very wet,” I would say. “Want a leaf?” He would say, “I’m too tired to go down to the river, right now. I’ll just sit in our cool cave a while.”
I Very interesting. What about him blaming you?
E Oh, that was a cheap shot. “She gave it to me.” Man up.
I You blamed the serpent.
E Who was left? I guess I was not really beguiled by it. I do hate snakes, though. Always have.
I Did you ever get over it?
E We finally agreed to drop the subject. Adam agreed and we never mentioned it again.
I What did you tell your children?
E That is your best question so far. That was a thing. Do we tell them how we messed it all up? We did warn them about the way to the old garden with the fiery sword. I think Cain went to see it. We told them how God created us but glossed over our mistake. Cain asked why we couldn’t go to the Garden. That was a tough one. Adam said loudly, “Because we just can’t!” Another question: “Where is God?” They didn’t see him. I heard Cain talked to him but not what that was about. Cain was a poser. Hard worker. But very jealous of his younger brother. So jealous! You could see it in his face. Were we to blame? We just liked Abel better. We admired Cain a lot. He worked so hard. I think we were prone to mistakes because of, you know…
I That is so much information. no more hard questions. What was your favorite fruit?
E Again with the fruit!
I Sorry. Was Adam adventurous?
E Yes, at first. He climbed a tree to see how far the garden went. When he told me, I said “What if you fell?” Do you know what he said? “Angels. Angels would catch me.”
I Did you see angels?
E That was just it. We never saw angels until after…
I He believed angels were all around you.
E And they kept us safe. He had an idea to float down the river on a broken tree. He talked himself out of that one.
I How?
E He said, “I would have to walk back a long way.” He didn’t want to do that.
I Well, we are out of time. Thank you so much.
E No. Thank you.
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