Mitch Albom

He brings it upon him and he wakes up the next morning and it's the day before.

And...

his mother is still alive in bed and he goes, this time he goes and he sits with her and she opens her eyes and she sees him and they have a last discussion together.

And she tells him all the things that he loves, that she loves about him.

She says, sit here, let me, because she realizes he has this power.

She says, sit here before I, before I die, let me tell you all the things I love about you.

But he still can't change the fact that she dies.

And he ultimately ends up saying that, you know,

he was playing Superman when she died.

And he writes a sentence, my mother died while I was trying to fly.

And Tanya, I actually wrote that because my mother died while I was on an airplane.

I had just gone to visit her in California.

She had had a stroke and couldn't talk.

And I missed having a last conversation with her because no one knew, of course, a stroke was coming.

And then

All of a sudden, she couldn't talk anymore.

And so we were, for months, we just were sitting with each other and looking at each other and that type of thing.

And I had gotten on a plane to fly somewhere.

And when I landed, my brother called me and said, Mom died while you were flying.

And so that scene to me was very poignant.