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1 APPENDICES THE BIOGRAPHY OF MITCH ALBOM Mitch Albom was born in New Jersey in 1958, the second of three children. He grew up loving music and taught himself to play piano. In fact, throughout his teenage years, he played in bands. Albom graduated high school after his junior year and then attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he majored in Sociology. After graduation, he continued to explore the world and his love of music, performing in Europe and the United States. However, while living in New York in his 20s, Mitch took an interest in journalism and volunteered to work for a local weekly paper, the Queens Tribune. This piqued his interest in the craft, so he attended graduate school, earning a Master s degree from Columbia University s Graduate School of Journalism, followed by an MBA from Columbia University s Graduate School of Business. Never forgetting his musical roots, he paid part of his tuition by working as a piano player. Following his academic career, Albom took on full-time writing, working as a freelance sports journalist in New York for publications such as 28

2 Sports Illustrated and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He moved to Detroit in 1985, where he was a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press. He was able to use his talents in multiple forms of media, working in newspapers, radio, and television. He currently hosts a daily talk show on radio show and appears regularly on ESPN's Sports Reporters and SportsCenter. Albom, who married Janine Sabino in 1995, is the author of four novels. Three of them have been turned into TV movies, including Tuesdays with Morrie, which was produced by Oprah Winfrey in Career Mitch Albom started S.A.Y. (Super All Year) Detroit in 2006, as a way of combating homelessness in Detroit. Since then, the charity has raised close to $1 million, all of it distributed or ere-marked to make life easier and more productive for the city's most needy. At Albom's insistence, no salaries or expenses are paid from the funds raised. Albom is an internationally renowned and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, and radio and television broadcaster. His books have collectively sold over 26 million copies worldwide; have been published in 50 territories and 42 languages around the world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies. He writes a regular syndicated column through the Detroit Free Press, hosts a syndicated radio show, and appears regularly on ESPN's "The Sports Reporters."In 1995, he re-encountered Morrie Schwartz, a former college professor who was dying of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. His visits with Schwartz would lead to the book "Tuesdays with Morrie", which moved 29

3 Mitch away from sports writing and began his career as an internationally recognized author. "Tuesdays with Morrie" is the chronicle of Mitch's time spent with his beloved professor. As a labor of love, Mitch wrote the book to help pay Morrie's medical bills. It spent four years on the New York Times Bestseller listand is now the most successful memoir ever published. His first novel, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" is the most successful US hardcover first adult novel ever. For One More Day, his most recent, debuted at No.1 on the New York Times Bestseller List and spent nine months on the list. In October 2006, "For One More Day" was the first book chosen by Starbucks in the newly launched Book Break Program, which also helped fight illiteracy by donating one dollar from every book sold to Jumpstart. Albom wrote the screenplay for both For One More Day and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and is an established playwright, having authored numerous pieces for the theater, including the off-broadway version of Tuesdays With Morrie (co-written with Jeffrey Hatcher) which has seen over seventy productions across the US and Canada. THE SUMMARY OF NOVEL The First Phone Call from Heaven is a novel that tells the story of the romance, history, and beliefs. From the novel by Mitch Albom, this deals with the sense of desire to Debbie an expert with a phone that his voice is sorely missed every day. The novel tells the story of a small town of coldwater, which geographically is located north of certain regions of Canada, and only a few kilometres away from Lake Michigan. In September in the small town of such a 30

4 miracle occurs where some of the people who live in the small town of first got a call from heaven and this phone came every Friday. In this novel is told also about two years before the invention of the telephone, Alexander Bell shout into the ear of the dead. Eardrums and bones related, cut from a beautiful corpse by fellow Bell, so that the Bell could learn how the eardrum siphon votes. He taped a straw on the ear that, put a dark piece of glass at the other end, and put a funnel on the outside. When Bell shouted into the funnel, the corpse suffered eardrum vibrations. Therefore, the people who died skull conjures up that inspiration. So, arguably the dead have become part of the phone, two years before anyone ever see his. The novel also tells the story of the trust the community around with other people about a call from heaven which resulted in uproar as there is one of the recipients of a phone call from heaven claimed that he actually lied there is no call from heaven that he earned. Recognition that keeps people coming to coldwater in doubt of a call from heaven. In addition to all the happenings that sully was the air force who is now a reporter finding out all the truth about the call from heaven through Elias and archives in store by Maria. At the end of the story the novel happen love story between Jack and Tess then expression searches of Sully about the yakinannya against the phone-call from heaven. And terbongkarnya the secret when sully its supposed innocence on Genesis f-18 aircraft crashed. all that in find out by sully on the phone-call from the paradise with regards to past sully when he is still in the air force. Sully proves that a call from heaven is the manipulation of a person named Horace. 31

5 THE LETTER FROM HORACE TO SULLY Dear Mr. Harding, I beg your forgiveness. My real name,as you now likely know,is Elliot Gray. I am the father of Elliot Gray Jr., my only child,with whom you are also tragically familiar. On the day of your plane crash,it was I who destroyed the flight recordings at Lynton Airfield,a relatively simple task for someone with my background. I did so in a foolish attempt to protect my son. We had been estranged for many years. His mother died young,and he did not approve of my occupation.in hindsight,i cannot blame him.it was clandestine,deceitful work that often took me away for long periods of time.i did it in the name of country and government,two things that mean surprisingly little to me as I write this. That morning,because he refused to take my calls,i arrived unannounced at Elliot s home. I had come to settle affairs with him.i was sixty-eight years old, and had been diagnosed with an incurable cancer. It was time to resolve our differences. 32

6 Unfortunately,Elliot did not receive me well.we argued. It is a father s naive belief that he can always make things right in the end. I could not. Instead, he rushed out agitated and angry.an hour later,he gave you the wrong clearance. On such moments do lives turn. I believe it was my presence that put him in a distracted state.i knew my son. He had his weaknesses. But his work,like mine,was impeccable. I had driven to the tower to hand him a letter that contained my final wishes. I could have left it at his home,but I suppose,deep down, I wanted to see him once more. I arrived in time to hear the faraway sound of your jet crashing. There are no words to descri be that moment.my training prepares me for controlled behavior in chaotic situations. But I m afraid my son panicked. I found him alone in the tower s control booth,yelling, What did I do? What did I do? I told him to lock the door and let me handle things as I moved quickly to erase all data thinking,like an operative,that with no flight recordings,he could not be proven at fault. For some reason,as I did this,he fled the facility. To this day I do not know why. That s the thing when people leave us too suddenly,isn t it? We always have so many questions. In the confusion that followed,i left the tower undetected,another thing I am trained to do.but after learning of Elliot s car crash, his death, and your wife being left in such terribly fragile condition,i was consumed with regret.i come 33

7 from a world of checks and balances. My son,i am responsible for. You and your wife were strangers,crossfire victims.i became desperate to make amends. A few days later,at Elliot s funeral,i witnessed friends I didn t know he had.they spoke lovingly about his belief in a better world after this one.they said he trusted in the grace of heaven. I never knew he felt that way. For the first time in my life,i wept for my child. I came to Col dwater to settle my debts to him and to you.with access to your military records,i was able to study your background.i tracked your return here,how you d moved your son in with your parents as you dutifully visited your wife in the hospital.when I learned of the charges you faced,i felt grave concern, knowing no evidence would be found to defend your actions. The ongoing case meant Elliot s death was constantly in the news.my conscience found no rest. I have always been a man of action,mr.harding. Knowing my life was drawing to a close,i purchased a nearby home,took on a new identity (again,a simple matter with my government background),and,by fortuitous accident,met Sam Davidson,who was hoping to retire from his life s work at the funeral home. As you approach death,its mystery takes on a mournful appeal.i bought an interest in his business,and discovered that the grieving of others gave me comfort.i listened to their stories. Listened to their regrets. Nearly all of them had a single desire the same desire,i suppose,that led me to the airfield that day: to speak with their loved ones at least once more. 34

8 I decided,for a handful of them, to make it so. To make my last act one of empathy,and perhaps give you and your son something hopeful after your wife s passing. The rest how I did it,the eight voices,the timing, the details I am fairly sure you will have figured out by this point. Do not count on discovering much evidence. My former employers will cover any important tracks. When you do what I did for so long,you are never truly retired; as my identity could be an embarrassment to them,they will reduce my significance and ensure I remain mostly a mystery. But I am sharing this with you, Mr. Harding,because to you I can never repay my debt. You may think someone with my background would have no belief in God. That would be inaccurate. It was with fierce belief in God s support that I justi fied my actions all those years. I did what I did in Coldwater as penance. I will die,as all of us do,without knowing the outcome of my works. But even if my methods are revealed,people will believe what they choose to believe. And if a few more souls have come to faith because of these calls, perhaps the Lord will show megrace. Either way,by the time you read this,the mystery of heaven will besolved for me. If I could truly contact you and tell you of its existence,i would.that would be the smallest of debts I could repay. Instead,I end this as I began it,asking your forgiveness.perhaps,soon, I will be able to seek the same from my son. Good-bye Elliot Gray Sr., aka Horace Belfin 35