#80, Eddie

Mitch Albom's uncle, Eddie Beitchman, the inspiration for The Five People You Meet in Heaven

This week we'll finish reading Mitch Albom's, The Five People You Meet in Heaven.  Throughout the story, Eddie passes through different stages of heaven to meet people from various time periods of his life.  At the end of each meeting, each person tells Eddie a lesson connected to their experience with him.  The fifth and final meeting is with Tala, a girl he had briefly met during his time in the Philippines.  The story ends,

His grip was still entwined with Tala's, but he felt his body being washed from his soul, meat from the bone, and with it went all the pain and weariness he ever held inside him, every scar, every wound, every bad memory.

He was nothing now, a leaf in the water, and she pulled him gently, through shadow and light, through shades of blue and ivory and lemon and black, and he realized all these colors, all along, were the emotions of life.  She drew him up through the breaking waves of a great gray ocean and he emerged in brilliant light above an almost unimaginable scene:

-The Five People You Meet in Heaven [pp. 193]

This week's task is to re-write the ending of the story from the end of this quote.

-Brenden Lee Teacher

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