The Lovely Bones is a novel which tells the story of Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl murdered in the early 1970s. After her death, Susie watches her loved ones cope with their loss from Heaven, witnessing the detectives try and fail to discover her murderer, her parents marriage fall apart, and her siblings and classmates grow up and move on. Though Susie will never be able to rejoin the living, watching over them enables her, and those she left behind, to eventually find peace.
Harvey visits the shack he buried a woman in several years ago. The body has been dug up.
Abigail stays at the hospital with Jack after everyone else has gone home. She wonders how long she will stay and what her visit will mean. She realizes she never stopped loving Jack, but that she cannot stay.
Harvey dreams of Lindsey, remembering her running away from his house. He has this dream whenever he feels threatened.
Susie enters the hospital room as her parents sleep. Jack senses her presence. Jack asks Abigail to stay, and she says she will stay for awhile. Jack tells Abigail he saw Susie in the room. Abigail says she sees Susie everywhere. Abigail and Jack kiss.
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