Chapters 28 through 30 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 28: The Longest Day of the Year

The boys arrived safely, and went on to train hard and enjoy themselves. Good friends of the family, Sophie and Derek, lived near by and invited the boys over. One afternoon when Willie went fishing with Sophie and her two dogs, he asked her about the soul, what she thought about it. She told him that souls were timeless and returned to earth for spiritual growth.

On June 21, 2009, Mary completed the final draft of her book. She and Peter were in the car and called Willie and Eliot on the speaker phone. Someone else answered the phone and told Mary that Willie had been in a roller skiing accident and was dead. The family's world was forever changed.

Chapter 29: A Beautiful Son

Roller skiing is a dry-land version of cross-country skiing, done...