What Happened To His Parents?

Between the moments when Elijah was asking the police officers, “whose gun is bigger,” and “where do chicken nuggets come from? Chicken mountains?” Sara read up on the breakup from his father’s perspective. It was a troubling read. His father wrote frank and emotional posts about feeling lost without his wife, how he didn’t have the energy to go on sometimes, and how all meaning had left him. Elijah asked her if clowns used ketchup for their lip makeup. “I’m not sure,” she told him.