When I was younger my best friend begged me to read “The Lovely Bones” because it was her favorite book, she gave me her copy and insisted that I would love it but I kept putting it off. A few months later she passed away and of course I searched for the book and read it for her almost immediately. Little did I know that the entire book was about death and letting go, which made me completely bawl the entire way through. I had always wanted to get a tattoo but never had enough reason to get something so permanent until this. I decided to get the tree that was mentioned in the book and emphasized in the movie that represented Heaven. The tree that I got looks a little different, but has the same theme of the leaves turning into birds. Her initials, MMM, are ‘carved’ in the tree trunk because I know that she made it to that tree and I know that she is in heaven.
