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From: St. Joseph News-Press
Date: 20040529
Author:ALONZO WESTON

In "The Divine Comedy," Dante Alighieri saw heaven as a series of concentric virtues with God at the center.

He saw hell as being made up of different levels of sin.

Neely Elementary School fifth-grader Gabrielle Lusso sees both eternal destinations in simpler terms.

"I think if people die and they're good, they go to heaven. If they're bad they go there," she says.

Perhaps somewhere between the musings of a 13th century poet and the thoughts of a precocious 11 year-old lies the answer about eternity.

Outside of 16th century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, who once claimed to have visited ...

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