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For One
More Day
by Mitch Albom
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
"Let me guess. You want to know why I tried to kill myself." –Chick
Benetto's first words to me.
T H I S IS A STORY ABOUT A FAMILY and, as there is a ghost involved,
you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The
dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
THIS PARTICULAR STORY belongs to Charles "Chick" Benetto. He was
not the ghost. He was very real. I found him on a Saturday morning,
in the bleachers of a Little League field, wearing a navy windbreaker
and chewing peppermint gum. Maybe you remember him from his
baseball days. I have spent part of my career as a sportswriter, so the
name was familiar to me on several levels.
Looking back, it was fate that I found him. I had come to Pepperville