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Book Review of The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Very interesting, quick-read book. From the author of Tuesdays with Morrie. Eddie is a simple man who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. Then on his 83rd birthday Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife where he learns that heaven is not a lush garden of eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by 5 people who were part of your life, but now are in Heaven.

Having lost a very special person in my life, it helped me to deal with a lot of emotions.