Old Paul Edgecomb:
[Sitting on a table drinking coffee with Elaine after she takes him aside from the TV room]
I guess sometimes the past... just catches up with you whether you want it to or not. It's silly...
Elaine Connelly:
Was it the film?
[pause]
Elaine Connelly:
It was, wasn't it?
Old Paul Edgecomb:
I haven't spoken of these things in a long time, Ellie. Over sixty years.
Elaine Connelly:
[Ellie takes Paul's hand and comforts him]
Paul... I'm your friend.
Old Paul Edgecomb:
Yes. Yes, you are.
[long pause]
Old Paul Edgecomb:
I ever tell you I was a prison guard during the Depression?
Elaine Connelly:
You've mentioned it.
Old Paul Edgecomb:
Did I mention I was in charge of Death Row? That I supervised all the executions?
[Ellie shakes her head]
Old Paul Edgecomb:
They usually call Death Row the Last Mile, but we called ours the Green Mile because the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair then; Old Sparky, we called it.
[pause]
Old Paul Edgecomb:
I've lived a lot of years, Ellie... but 1935 takes the prize. That was the year I had the worst urinary infection of my life. That was also the year of John Coffey and the two dead girls...
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