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this is a very nice book to share with,  the book that i just finish reading it, very interesting and touching. i like the way Mitch Albom organize the whole story. he likes to put some short story that is related to the story in between the chapters. maybe you don’t understand what I’m trying to say now, but its OK, I’ll make it clearer later on.

this story is written based on his interview with the narrator, named Charley Benetto. so this is a true story, not solely the imagination of the author.

Charley Benetto is a broken man. he lost his career and family. the worst thing is that he doesn’t even get informed about his daughter’s wedding. he is so disappointed and decided to end his life. he took a mid night ride back to the place where he spent his entire childhood in. on his way back to his hometown, he get involved in an accident, a very serious one, but surprisingly he didn’t die.

he walked back to his mother’s house and discovered that his mother who died years before standing alive in front of him, cook him dinner and talk to him. and he spent the ‘one more day’ with his mother. in their conversation, his mother helped him to get back into his normal life, the life he ruined.

on that day, he travel from one house to another together with his mother and discovered many things about his mother: the reason for her divorce and what had she does to support the whole family.

the narrator did make a list entitled ‘Times I Did Not Stand Up for My Mother’ and ‘Times I Stand Up for My Mother’. it is the story in the list that Mitch Albom put in between the chapters, together with short memo that his mother wrote him, of which always end with ‘p.s: i love you everyday‘.

i bet all mothers in this world will do as what the narrator’s mother did, they just different in their way to show how much they love their children. now, try to refresh back and do that two list, you will realise how much you owe our mother. so, do appreciate every moment you spent together with your mother because you might lost her one day. and by the time comes, you do not need to appeal for one more day.