Eddie is the main character in this novel. He was eighty-three years old when he died. He had a short neck, barrel chest, thick forearms and a faded army tattoo on his right shoulder. Eddie was a worn out, working maintenance man at Ruby Pier. He wore a linen cap over his white hair, rubber-soled shoes and a beige uniform with a nametag on his chest that says, Eddie, and underneath Eddie it says, Maintenance. Eddie was an old man with wrinkles all over his face and had a protruded chin. His knee was wounded from when he fought in the war many years ago and he now uses a cane to help him get around. Eddie likes to keep the kids at the Pier happy by making pipe cleaner animals for them. But, Eddie hated teenagers because they always gave him