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Rent The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: Jan 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $17.99
Pages: 196
Synopsis
Eddie works as a maintenance man at an amusement park--a life he himself sees as nothing much. But at the age of 83, he accidentally dies saving the life of a child. When he gets to heaven, he meets five people who show him that his life, though quiet and uneventful, was definitely not lived in vain.
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