Mitch Albom

And they called me up a week or two later, and they said, we have a problem.

I said, what?

They said, well, we laid this out.

We paginated this, and this is only going to be like 175 pages.

And I said, well, that's all I got.

That's it.

So if anything, I was going out of my way not to be manipulative or anything like that or overwrite or over sentimental.

So I hadn't really heard that a lot.

But now that you're telling it to me, I don't I certainly don't do that.

And I think when you write about people's grief and you write about love and you write about human emotions, you are doing what artists have done since then.

You know, time immemorial.

I mean, you write about feelings and you and if what I write makes people cry or leaves leaves them teary or choked up.

OK, but it's not it's not I don't sit there going, oh, this will make them cry.

Believe me, I don't have that power.

Yeah, well, I always felt that, first of all, sports, I never got into sports because I was that interested in sports.

I got into sports because that's where the job was when I got started and because I thought that it was a great tapestry to talk about human emotion.

You know, there's always a winner, a loser.

There's the agony of trying, and then you come up short because you get injured.

There's so much emotion involved in it.

But I'll give you a perfect example, Tanya, of something that I wrote that appealed to me