Mitch Albom

that person can never love you again.

They'll be in the world, you can know them, but they'll never feel the same way about you.

And so this power comes with that consequence as well.

And of course, as you can imagine, since I'm a writer, he has to make a very fateful decision at one point in the book, and I'll sort of leave it there.

Well, mortality...

That was easy because you can't change mortality.

And in fact, he discovers this at the beginning of the book when he first discovers his power because he's eight years old.

He doesn't know he has this power.

He's in Africa with his parents who are missionaries.

His mother gets sick.

She's in bed.

And he goes out to play.

Instead of sitting with her, his father wants him to sit with her, but his father leaves and he says, well, she's sleeping.

You know, why do I?

I'm eight years old.

I just go out and play.

So he goes out and plays.

And while he's out playing, she dies.

And when he comes back in, he realizes he he missed her death and he was playing and he's so upset and he's so angry with himself.

And he's so, you know, and through the course of the night, he sort of like engenders this power.