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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