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She Comes Home

"I have the best news," my bestie Mar said. She leaned close and whispered this magical, secret news into my right ear.
"WHEN?" I yelped.
"TODAY!" she exclaimed.
I clapped my hands and giggled with sheer delight.
"It's a secret," Mar cautioned me. "We are all in it, as a surprise for her cousin. Her cousin had been down in the dumps the entire time Onisha had been on Planet Earth (PE).
Yes, folks we angels could choose or not choose PE, it's a hard road to travel. PE is the ultimate learning planet, one of the most difficult learning planets to tackle. The goal of this planet is to learn life lessons about sadness, sorrow, death, and somehow take those lessons and create joy, peace and love. If you were allowed a crack at PE, you were a special, highly-intelligent, creative angel. Few were chosen.

Onisha's cousin, had no idea what we were all whispering about. Cousin had shut herself down twenty-three years ago after Onisha had announced her plans to tackle Planet Earth. The rumor is that cousin had stayed up all night, beg-whining, trying to talk Onisha out of it. Onisha had already selected her parents, and she was looking forward to the challenge, so she went in spite of cousin's misery.
From what we were hearing from the view towers, Onisha had made a high success of herself on PE. She was well-loved, well-thought of, tenacious, kind, respectful; one of the best souls Earth had ever seen.
At 2:18 Mar whispered this to me. "The faerie angels left a few minutes ago in the golden chariots to meet Onisha"
They were back by 2:29. We were all gathered on the tulip hill, even though it's supposed to be forbidden to wait like this. A cheer went up and kept up for several minutes as we watched Onisha jump out and run straight into the arms of her cousin!
Life on Heaven does not get much better than this.
See you soon!

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