Billy Beck: Lt. Trask

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• Lt. Trask : I know that this has been a very trying time. It really must have been a nightmare for you.

  Mary Hartman : No, not really. It was more like a bad dream. You see, I've never really had an experience like this. One of the strangest things about it was that while I was in there with Davey, I kept having this sense that this was one of the high points of my life. See, I read a book once called "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. And there's this girl in it, Emily, and she lives in a town, and it's like ours, only she dies. And then they bring her back to life for one day. And she comes back, and she sees her life, and she sees her ordinary life, and she sees how special her ordinary life is. And she says - quote - Does anybody ever really realize life while they're living it? - unquote. It was during this experience that I understood that phrase.