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What is family a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household, which shows how Morrie let mitch be part of his family. Making mitch always welcomed into morries home when they were talking to each other about something new and mitch is learning things new every tuesday with morrie, they were friends since his first year of university, that is when they became friends, Mitch always told morrie what happening in his life and some way or another morrie could relate to things, mitch could remember him dancing on the disco floor dancing to everything even if he did not know the song he got the beat and danced. Mitch ways always busy at work. “Do not stop your lives,” he told them. “Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.” said by Mitch to morrie. …show more content…
For example when Morrie's ALS got worse mitch made his body moisturized his body with the cream that's how they both had each others back. Morrie could always trust Mitch because of how strong their bond was as friends. Morrie had family which counted to him the most as family makes you fight for goals that you want to accomplish in life, Thats whats family is for, it supports you every step of the way and morrie had that support with the help of Mitch, morrie could fight through anything even though it was had for Morrie with his ALS, he pursued to fight and lived his life to the fullest. Mitch’s family joined morries family and supported him because Morrie was family to mitch. There is a book that relates to the theme family, it's called Coming on Home Soon.this book relates because it’s about a girl named Ada who the mother must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada and Grandma behind,like in Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch leaves morrie for work that's how this book relates to family, furthermore, as in the two books there is someone leaving for work. Then mitch returns to see his

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