I thank the professor I got to know through this book. Dear Morrie, thank you for being a Coach to us who you never met, thank you for all the wisdom you let Mitch relay to us.

This book was a tight warm hug I never knew I needed. Lately I've been feeling a little depressed, it's been months now. And I was measuring my worth based on things that, now when I think about, don't actually matter to me that much. Anyway, thanks to this wonderful memoir, getting to know Morrie, hearing his last words, his optimistic outlook on life even on his deathbed was something so soothing.

And I won't deny, the way some of Morrie's views on being compassionate and forgiving resonated with me, I felt a deep personal connection to him. I sure would have liked being a student to him myself. But I guess I've just become. Thanks to this book.

I was dreading this book's end. I knew what was coming. It was a memoir, of course, not a thriller or a "work of fiction" where things have a way of turning out better than reality, at least at times.

It was hard saying goodbye to this book. As it was for Mitch to say the final goodbye to his loving, parent-like old professor, Morrie Schwartz.