
I used to be alive, you know.
You were?
I'm pretty sure I was.
When was that?
Quite a long time ago.
What was it like?
I can't seem to remember.
What is a "meaningful relationship?" "Relationship" means connection. "Meaningful" doesn't mean anything at all. It's not even in the dictionary. "Meaningless" is there but not "meaningful." It's a word devised out of desperation, not because our language has need of it, but to avoid facing the possibility that all life is meaningless.
Our protagonist is preyed upon by a grief too deep for comprehension, obsessed with a feeling that he is only pretending to be alive....
Answer Me, first broadcast by the CBS Radio Mystery Theater on March 4, 1977.