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ELI: Oh no! Josie! (JOSIE begins to panic. Her hands fly to her throat.) Our final wish! There must be more left. I wish for my wife to speak again! (JOSIE is still silent as tears begin to stream down her face. ELI embraces her.) I wish for her silence to end! I wish for everything to return as it had been! Oh, no! The old man! I'll find the old man! He has to give me another wish! He has to fix this!

(ELI rushes out the door. JOSIE tries to call out to ELI, but of course, her voice is silent.)

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Why does Josie respond with tears at the end of the text?


She is crying with joy because Eli has made her wish come true.


She realizes that her talking has caused Eli to waste the final wish.


She is resentful because she wanted to make the final wish, not Eli.


She is crying because Eli's final wish was for himself, not for her.

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She realizes that her talking has caused Eli to waste the final wish — she’s crying from guilt/regret because her speech prompted Eli to use up their last wish, leaving nothing to fix the situation.