14 Hours Left to Live
At the time of her death, Annie was tall and lean, with long curls of butterscotch hair, knobby elbows and shoulders, and skin that reddened around her neck when she was embarrassed. She had flashing eyes of a light olive shade and a soft, oval face that co-workers described as “pretty once you get to know her.”

As a nurse, Annie wore blue scrubs and gray running shoes to her job at a nearby hospital. And it was at that hospital where she would leave this world — after a dramatic and tragic accident — one month shy of her 31st birthday.

You might say that is “too young” to die. But what is too young for a life? As a child, Annie had been spared from death once, in another accident at a place called Ruby Pier, an amusement park by a great gray ocean. Some said her survival was “a miracle.”

So perhaps she was older than she was meant to be.
['Mitch Albom']
['Fiction', 'Heaven', 'Death', 'Mitch Albom', 'Book Excerpts']