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by Alice Sebold
About 91 pages (27,195 words)
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Through the years, Susie continues to watch her family. She watches her family less regularly, as Grandma Lynn dies, Lindsey and Samuel marry, and Buckley grows up. Ray becomes a doctor but is not with Ruth, who is in New York. Ruth believes that Susie entered her body, and she tries to convince others that the dead talk to the living.

Susie is in a wide heaven that is comfortable but different from her first heaven. She has all the comforts she ever wants in her heaven. Her grandfather is with her, and one day when they are watching Earth they see Mr. Harvey. He is eating at a diner and traveling on the Greyhound bus.

Mr. Harvey comes out of the diner and into the heavy snow. He begins talking to young girl. He asks.....

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