Chapter 10 Summary

"The Fourth Person Eddie Meets in Heaven." Eddie finds himself in a round building with many doors, and behind each door is a wedding reception from a different country. At last, one of the bridesmaids turns out to be a youthful Marguerite.

"Today Is Eddie's Birthday." Eddie and his brother Joe are sitting in the maintenance shop. Joe is now a salesman for a hardware company and wears a business suit. Eddie has been promoted to head of maintenance, but Joe is making three times as much money. Marguerite enters and is wearing a Ruby Pier uniform. She is working in a ticket booth this summer. She leads him outside, and a group of children are lighting the thirty-eight candles on a birthday cake and singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. Eddie." Marguerite is unable to bear children, and they are talking about adoption.

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