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The Learner Soul was story idea I came up with after my beloved Grandmother Christine Verdi died in August 2001. Shortly after her funeral I had the inspiration to wonder what she was doing in Heaven at that particular time on that particular day. The original idea was to do a diary of a young man who went to Heaven but as I began to write I realized the story needed to be different than my original idea.
I somehow came upon the idea of a young boy who died and went to Heaven and was greeted by his great-grandmother who died in the Spanish Flue Pandemic of 1918. I used that idea because my great-grandmother, my Grandma Verdi’s mother, died during the Pandemic. It was a story I heard early in life and it never left me. I was also able to use my grandmother’s story of the communal ovens on the south side of Dilworth where families would take turns each week using the ovens to bake their bread.
While the story is serious and has some weight to it with its ideas and thoughts of Heaven and God, I was able to work into it the name of my favorite local bar band from the time in the late 1970s and early 80s when I went to college at Moorhead State University.
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