elliot edwards and the pursuit of finding oneself

when elliot wakes up on his fifteenth birthday with a letter from his birth mother (someone who he knew noting about), he scrambles to get the answers to all of the quesions he could come up with. but how? the letter had no return address, and based on what his mom, alice, told him, his father didn't even know he had a son. "if you have questions...'' alice wrote. "your dad goes to the diner on 4th street every day. how you go about getting answers is up to you. good luck e. i love you more than you'll ever know." so the diner on fourth steet is exactly where he went.

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