The people who learned too late. by Palmer, Gary B-9 English, Period 1, January 20, 1965

 Title: The people who learned too late. by Palmer, Gary B-9 English, Period 1, January 20, 1965 Topic sentence: The old woman stood on the steps of the church. The old woman stood on the steps of the church. She was seventy-three years old and had an unfriendly grin. She hated people and cared nothing for religion. She had just walked out of the church in a hurried way. Then all at once, she was called back in the church by the man she hated most. The man she hated was her husband, a pastor at the church. As she went back in she tightened up and acted scared. Her husband and she had been married fifty-one terrible years. What a difference in personality. He was a man who loved to help people and loved God. She a person hater and no care for any religion. Why then did they stay together? Some little thing, the littlest thing it must have been, had kept them together even with this terrible hate for one another. After about an hour in this place, she started screaming I have to go! I have to go! Why so fast? Why did she hate that man that church and those people in the church so much? Time went on. She was sitting as her husband preached. Finally she got up and said run! run! There is a bomb in here. She said she hated them all. They all were terrible. Now they were to die! Who wanted to live anyway? Was there any point to life? Then, she fainted. Everyone ran from the church, nothing happened. Time passed. They have lifted her out. What a sick woman she was. For the first time, the man realized his love for her. He would change. Not so much church and not so many people. What a different life it would be. The lady was taken to the hospital. Her husband came with her. He stayed with her and at first she still didn't realize he changed and that he loved her. As time went on she realized it and began to love him. After two or three months in the hospital, they went home together for the first time in their lives. After two or so more months the man began to feel sad. He missed the church and people. The lady realized it. She said for him to go to the church and she would go to. When she got there she realized how nice people really were. She stepped out on the steps of the church for air. She now had all she wanted in life. Now she was sad she had wasted her whole life hating. Sometimes people realize things a little too late. When too much time has passed then they realize the right thing. The thing they should have done before. Don't let it happen to you like it happened to these victims of life.

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