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Explination In Mitch's Ideas To Morrie
Mitch failed to show that he was the best version of himself many times throughout the book, many of those times involved him with his work. When he graduates from Brandeis, he promises Morrie that he will visit him after graduation. He does not go through with that promise after college because he becomes too consumed with his own life. Mitch went back to school to earn his Master's degree in journalism. He becomes so imprisoned by work that he barely appreciates life. He is not the person he hoped to be when he was younger. Soon he marries a woman, named Janine, a week after their wedding, he went back to work, his obsession with his job interfered with what his wife wanted so dearly, a family. He had no idea that Morrie had ALS, he was

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