Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Author:Mitch Albom
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2009-12-25T20:00:00+00:00


On Saturdays, Eddie's father took him to the pier. Ed_die She looks around. "Now where should we put this?" would leave the apartment with visions of carousels and globs of cotton candy, but after an hour or so, his father Mickey grabs a chair. Joe clears a smal tabletop. would find a familiar face and say, "Watch the kid for me, Marguerite moves Eddie's crutches. Only his father does wil ya?" Until his father returned, usual y late in the not shuffle for the sake of shuffling. He stands against the after_noon, often drunk, Eddie stayed in the custody of an back wal , a jacket over his arm, staring at Eddie s leg, acro_bat or an animal trainer.

encased in plaster from thigh to ankle.

Stil , for countless hours of his boardwalk youth, Ed_die Eddie catches his eye. His father looks down and runs his waited for his father's attention, sitting on railings or hand over the windowsil . Eddie tightens every muscle in squatting in his short pants atop tool chests in the repair his body and attempts, by sheer wil , to force the tears back shop. Often he'd say, "I can help, I can help!" but the only into their ducts.

job entrusted him was crawling beneath the Ferris wheel in the morning, before the park opened, to col ect the coins that had fal en from customers' pockets the night before. At least four evenings a week, his father played cards. The table had money, bottles., cigarettes, and rules. Eddie's rule was simple: Do not disturb. Once he tried to stand next to his father and look at his cards, but the old man put down ALL PARENTS DAMAGE their children. It cannot be his cigar and erupted like thunder, smacking Ed_die's face helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its with the back of his hand.

"Stop breathing on me," he said. handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter Eddie burst into tears and his mother pul ed him to her childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond waist, glaring at her husband. Eddie never got that close repair.

again.

The damage done by Eddie's father was, at the begin_ning, Other nights, when the cards went bad and the bottles had the damage of neglect. As an infant, Eddie was rarely held been emptied and his mother was already asleep, his father by the man, and as a child, he was mostly grabbed by the brought his thunder into Eddie and Joe's bedroom. He raked arm, less with love than with annoyance.

Eddie's mother through the meager toys, hurling them against the wal . handed out the tenderness; his father was there for the Then he made his sons lie facedown on the mattress while dis_cipline.

he pul ed off his belt and lashed their rear ends, screaming that they were wasting his money on junk. Eddie used to Eddie would say he got him good. This, too, met with his pray for his mother to wake up, but even the times she did, father's approval.



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