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This quote does not seem like it would have a lot of context behind it but it does. The person doing Eddie's birthday bumps is Eddie's uncle and Eddie did not like the birthday bumps at all. While Eddie is getting his birthday bumps by his uncle it reminds him of his father and old memories with his father. Once his birthday bumps are over he gets up punches his uncle and runs to mother and explains that he was scared in way that didn't make it obvious.

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This quote means that when people have stories they never are just one story, no story sits by itself. Each story is just another story that connects to other stories that someone has. I feel that this quote is important because Eddie has a lot of stories that are connected in some type of way. Eddie has stories about his childhood that just stack up on one another. I picked this quote because I feel that I can relate to this quote myself too because I have many stories that I can tell to people but realistically its all just one big story.

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In this quote Eddie is giving his good friend Dominguez two twenty dollar bills because Eddie wants Dominguez to buy something nice for his wife. This quote is important because I feel that it shows how caring Eddie was during his life. Eddie did many things in his life to help other people without benefiting himself. Dominguez is one of Eddie's closet friends and Eddie would do anything for the people he loves in his life but also people he didn't know.

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In this quote Eddie feels that people only know him now by the guy who works at the amusement park. The effects Eddie because it make him feel lonley because he outlived almost everybody that were closet to him except one of his very good friends Dominguez. This quote is important because Eddie continues to be a very helpful and generous person to others disregarding how much other people do for him. Eddie has been through many deaths of his loved ones and never expected himself to not grow old with any of those people.

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In this quote Eddie is in the Philipines, him and three other men were captured by phillipino soldiers. They were captured and held for six months in the Phillipines under close observation and abusive tactics by the Phillipino soldiers. In this quote Eddie and his soldier friends planned an attack and excape plan to get out of there. Eddie was showing the guards that he could juggle with rocks as a distraction and when he said so they went into attack mode. Eddie attacked one of the guards with one of the rocks and then got another guard with another rock and then they all made a run for it.

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This quote is a very important quote because the captain is explaining to Eddie that the battlefield has a story and how the battlefield has not always been rubble with a grey sky. Eddie is in the Captain's heaven in this quote but Eddie does not see what the Captain sees because Eddie does not remember that land to be beautiful, he remembers the land to be dark and just rubble. In this quote Eddie sees the battlefield but the Captain sees beautiful land with a clear blue sky and the sun beating down on his skin.

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In this quote the Captain explains to Eddie that when making sacrifices you can't think about how it will affect you in the present and how it would help you in the future. The Captain had to make a sacrafice when he shot Eddie because if the Captain did not shoot Eddie, Eddie would died and maybe even the Captain also.

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In this quote it is the morning after Eddie's death, Dominguez and Willie are the pier even though it is not open. They were there to grieve about their friends death. They both explain to each other about how they couldn't sleep that night. They sat there and just waiting for the old man to come in a start the day as he does everyday but that old man was Eddie.

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In this quote Ruby is explaining to Eddie how that Eddie holding anger towards someone is pointless because its going to end up just hurting him more and more. Ruby wants Eddie to forgive his father so Eddie can move on in the after life and be full of no anger, guilt, or regrets. Eddie finds it very hard to forgive his father because of what Eddie's father has done to him in the past.

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In this quote Ruby is exaplaining to Eddie that it is honestly okay to have anger in the real world, everybody has anger in the real world over at least one thing in their life. But what Ruby is explaining to Eddie is that its not okay to hold anger towards people especially loved ones in the after life. She says that "no one is born with anger and when we die the soul is freed of it." What Ruby means by this is for Eddie to move on he needs to understand why he felt all that anger and why he doesn't need to feel it anymore.

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In This quote Eddie arrived to his third location in the after life about to meet the third person in heaven. He is in a region that were mountains with snow caps on them with a range that went on forever. When he arrives he sees the bueatiful landscape but also a diner but not any diner, he recognizes the diner. When he walks into the diner he sees other people in their but it seems like they cant see him. Eddie notices that every person in that diner has a wound on them like a gash on their face or a missing arm. Eddie took a quick notice at someone he recognized, his father.

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In this quote Ruby finally reveals why she is there for Eddie and why she is a person that Eddie meets in Heaven. Ruby is there to meet Eddie because she needs to explain to Eddie how his father died. Eddie's father attempted to save his best friend Mickey from drowning in the ocean but ended up catching pneumonia. The reason Ruby is there to tell Eddie how his father died is because Ruby was in the hospital the whole time in the room next to Eddie's father watching him die.

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In this quote the pier is opening back up and things are starting to get back to normal again. The pier is busy and the ocean looks the same. This quote is saying that it seems like nothing changed and people are going back to their normal lives.

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In this quote Eddie is learning that when you pass away your love and soul don't just go away. You will still love the people you loved during your past life. Eddie is trying to move past his love for his father but he can't and he is being explained to that he can't lose something that important for someone. He needed to come to terms with his feelings and make up with his father.

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In this quote the little girl that Eddie meets is explaining to him that she was the figure he saw in the burning hut when the Captain shot him in the leg. She is explaining to Eddie that she was the person who died and he refused to believe it and went into immediate panic and started to freak out. She made Eddie peel off her burned skin to reveal her true skin underneath. She makes Eddie do this because she wants closure for her and him and by making the little girl herself again can give them both the closure they need.

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In this quote the little girl is explaining to Eddie about how the hands he felt where her hands and not the little girl he was trying to save hands. The little girl who's name is Tala is the fifth person Eddie meets in heaven and is the person who explains if Eddie saved the little girl at the pier the day of his death. Tala explains to Eddie that he pushed the little girl away and didn't pull them. Eddie is confused and remembers feeling hands when he tried to save the little girl and Tala explains to Eddie that they were her hands that he felt bringing him to heaven.