![]() ![]() The only way I could keep her alive was not to write that chapter. And it broke all of our hearts when she died. So there were certainly similarities - she was bright and she was funny and she was athletic and she was a wonderful kid. Lisa was only 8 when she died actually, she was struck by lightning. Lisa Hill, who was my son David's best friend when they were in the second grade, was in many ways like I picture Leslie Burke. On the girl who inspired the character of Leslie Burke ![]() And if they don't want to learn anything from it, that's their choice. I think you tell your story and then the reader gets to decide what he or she will learn from your story. I try very hard to stay away from the word "message," because I think it's poison in fiction. I thought maybe everybody in the world needs to have that experience, to be loved by someone they thought they hated. And what I learned in those four years I spent in Japan was how wonderful it is to be loved by people you thought you hated. ![]()
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