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And he gave it to you.
    DEL : He can be very generous. Is that alright? To …
    DONNY : Yes. No. He can. (
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    … what am I going to do? You tell me. Yes. He could be generous.
I
don’t know.
    DEL : … he was opening a can. With it. And I said … actually, he saw me looking at the knife. And he wiped it. And gave it to me. (
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    DONNY : When you were at the Camp. Last week.
    DEL : That’s right—(
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    DONNY : Tell me what you talked about.
    DEL : What we talked about. In the Woods.
    DONNY : Yes.
    DEL : We talked about you.
    DONNY : About
me
…?
    DEL : Yes. (
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    DONNY : What did he say?
    DEL : How happy he had been.
    DONNY : Really.
    DEL : That’s what he said.
    DONNY : How can you understand that. (
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.) How in the world …
    DEL : I’m so sorry.
    DONNY : Did you know he was leaving me?
    DEL : No.
    DONNY : Did you think that he was?
    DEL : No.
    DONNY : No? You didn’t?
    DEL : How could I?
    DONNY : … he didn’t …?
    DEL : No. He didn’t what …?
    DONNY : Give you a sign …?
    DEL : A sign. No.
    DONNY : How can we understand … how … 
men
, you know. How … men …
    DEL : I’m going to
tell
you something.
    It’s funny for two grown men to go camping anyway. (
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.) I don’t care. (
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.) Huh. I was born a
city
boy. (
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.) (
He displays knife
.) And now I’m a Forester. (
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.) I’m a Ranger … did you know there’s a Fraternal Group called the Catholic Order of Foresters?
    DONNY : Yes.
    DEL : You knew that?
    DONNY : Yes. Sure.
    DEL : I wonder what they do. (
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    DONNY : Did you say he gave that knife to you when you went camping?
    DEL : Yes. (
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    DONNY : When the two of you went camping. Last …
    DEL : Last week. That’s right. (
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    DONNY : He gave the knife to you.
    DEL : Yes. He was opening a can of … (
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.) Why? (
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.) Why did you ask?
    DONNY : I saw it in the attic. When I went up there. To put the things away.
    DEL : (
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.) What things?
    DONNY : When I took the camping things up. Last week. (
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.) After your trip. When you came back.
    DEL : I don’t understand.
    DONNY : When you came back, last week, Robert and you.
    DEL : … yes …
    DONNY : From your Trip.
I went up. To put his things away. And the knife was up there. (
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.) It was already in the attic.
    DEL : Well, maybe he went up there first, to put it back.
    DONNY : … What?
    DEL : I’m saying, maybe Robert went there first to put it back. When we came back. When we came back from
camping
. (
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.) I’m sure that’s what occurred. (
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    DONNY : You’re saying that he went upstairs to put it back.
    DEL : Yes. Because it was precious to him.
    DONNY : I don’t understand.
    DEL : It was a
war
memento. I’m saying that it was so
precious
to him that he went, and
left
the stuff … for
you
to putaway, but went upstairs and put the
knife
into the trunk himself. (
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    DONNY : Then how did
you
get it? (
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    DEL : What?
    DONNY : How did you get the knife?
    DEL : He gave it to me.
    DONNY : I don’t understand.
    DEL : He gave it to me.
    DONNY : How could he give it to you?
    DEL : What?
    DONNY : You said he gave it to you when you were camping. (
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.) How could he give it to you when you were
camping
, when it was here in the trunk when you both came back? (
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    DEL : There must be two knives. (
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    DONNY : I … I don’t understand.
    DEL : There must be two knives.
    DONNY : What?
    DEL : I bet if you went in the trunk to look right now you’d see. There was another knife.
    DONNY : Yes. No. Wait … When did Robert give the knife to you?
    DEL : I
thought
 … isn’t it funny? I was sure he gave the knife to me while we were camping. I guess I’m mistaken. (
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.) Huh. (
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.) Unless, no … Huh!… I … I don’t know. (
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.) It’s a mystery to me. Unless …
    DONNY :
Wait!
    DEL : What?
    DONNY : He came upstairs. He came up. To the attic!
    DEL : Who?
    DONNY : I was