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Summary Of Guess What I Almost Kissed My Father Good Night
The ending of “Guess What? I Almost Kissed My Father Goodnight” By Robert

Cormier, was an excellent short story with a nice vivid and realistic ending that makes me

joyous and tingly because of the fact that Mike and his father make up. In the end of

Cormier's short story, Mikes father explains all of this as a misunderstanding, and wraps up

the ending, resuming into a conclusion that was so short and sweet but yet, still

predictable. While I was reading this story, I was so wrapped up in Cormier's description of

how Mike felt, that I was practically begging in my mind for an exquisite closing that would

leave me in awe. I could predict the ending just a bit by how Cormier described the crisis

that Mike was in, and I could just

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