Ira Glass

Sincerely, Ben.

So he sends a message.

Eddie writes him right back.

And let me just interrupt you there.

So then he sort of retells the story too, but he doesn't seem to understand the point you were trying to make with your story that maybe he was the one who was a little too scared of things that weren't scary.

And then he writes that he feels like he can literally bury the tension between the two of you that went unacknowledged for more than 30 years.

Just read his closing lines here.

You did anything, and it's all in his head.

Because I think both things are possible, right?

You really might have done something real that he could tell you if you asked him directly, and you realize, oh, yeah, I did that.

But it also might be possible, like, he can't come up with any incident.

What do you think is the truth?

This got stuck in Ben's head.

What had he done, if anything?

Had he been a good kid or a bad kid?

Ben decided to find out.

Seemed like a good question to ask a rabbi, right?

He prepared this report.

Amen.

Well, today's show was produced by Aviva de Kornfeld and Tobin Glow.