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The Five People You Meet in Heaven 你在天堂遇见的五个人 By Mitch Albom 文字难度3 赵晓春 译 The Third Lesson 第三课 （艾迪在天堂遇到的第三个人——鲁比，她以前是游乐场的老板娘，后来破产了。她告诉了爱迪一些关于他父亲的事情。这些事情爱迪并不知道，这让他对父亲的仇恨开始瓦解。） Ruby stood, and Eddie stood, too. He could not stop thinking about his father’s death. “I hated him,” he 1)mumbled. The old woman nodded. “He was hell on me as a kid. And he was worse when I got older.” Ruby stepped toward him. “Edward,” she said softly. It was the first time she had called him by his name. “Learn this from me. Holding anger is a 2)poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a 3)weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved 4)blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. “5)Forgive, Edward. Forgive. Do you remember the 6)lightness you felt when you first arrived in heaven?” Eddie did. Where is my pain? “That’s because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.” She touched his hand. “You need to forgive your father.” Eddie thought about the years that followed his father’s 7)funeral. How he never achieved anything, how he never went anywhere. For all that time, Eddie had imagined a certain life—a “could have been” life—that would have been his if not for his father’s death and his mother’s 8)subsequent 9)collapse. Over the years, he 10)glorified that imaginary life and held his father 11)accountable for all of its losses: the loss of freedom, the loss of career, the loss of hope. He never rose above the dirty, tiresome work his father had left behind. “When he died,” Eddie said, “he took part of me with him. I was stuck after that.” Ruby shook her head, “Your father is not the reason you never left the pier.” Eddie looked up. “Then what is?” She patted her skirt. She adjusted her 12)spectacles. She began to walk away. “There are still two people for you to meet,” she said. Eddie