Five People You Meet In Heaven

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The Five People you Meet in Heaven Essay

The five people you meet in heaven was a good book not quite what I normally read but was still good. This essay you want me to write. Well, not so good. I’d ask you not to assign this, but you wouldn't do that so I'll get to work. Well, I choose to do the second one because I have an idea on how to do it. and it was the only one that made any sense to me. so that's the one I plan on doing. In the five people, you meet in heaven mickey shea is the one I like the most he is the one that thinks outside the box and his role in the story is very big to me bigger than that of the main character in the story. and he says something that really opens the story up to me and what he

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