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Tuesday's With Morrie
Tuesday's with Morrie is a book that teaches many lessons on how we should live life and how Morrie Schwartz deals with his suffering. I am making a tree with some of Morrie's aphorisms on the leaves. I chose this project because I want to have something to look at and to remind me of how to act when I'm having a bad day.
The project I did relates to the book by explaining what I got out of reading the book and how it made me think about the different topics related to Tuesday's with Morrie. The book has changed the way I look at the world and through Morrie's easy to remember aphorisms caused me to think about this book and the lessons it taught on life. Morrie Schwartz who was diagnosed with ALS, decided to devote his last few years to helping
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