"We've got lots of young people here.  If you ever want to make your life a little busier and teach."  Eddie suggests.  "I was a kid when I was imported here.  I don't know what line of work I would have gone into if I'd grown up back home.  Or what I'd been like.  Probably boring as fuck."  His mother would have kept him and Richie apart, that much was for certain.  It would have sucked.