“It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

— Mitch Albom, book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

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