![]() ![]() The waters pulled back, and she found herself standing on the shore of a great gray ocean, wearing cutoff shorts and a lime green T-shirt that covered her hollow middle. When Annie broke the surface, her skin was instantly dry. ![]() Up above, she saw a circle of light, like the fat end of a telescope. She windmilled her arms and spun her head, her hair swirling around her like tentacles. Annie yanked herself through the opening into a vast greenish deep it seemed more like a sea than the base of a waterfall. The wooden barrel crashed the water’s surface and dropped in quiet submersion. This excerpt is from when they first meet in the afterlife. She dies trying to save her husband’s life and meets five people of her own – one of whom is Eddie, the man who forever changed her existence. ![]() “The Next Person” follows the story of Annie, the little girl Eddie saved, who grows up thinking everything she does is a mistake. He comes to learn that his life, like all lives, had great meaning that he never understood. In "Heaven," Eddie meets five people, each of whom tells him about a moment on earth in which they interacted, a moment that changed them both forever. ![]()
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