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From: Judy Kelble< >
Subject: [OHHURON-L] Fw: [OHLORAIN] Togetherness :-)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:57:07 -0500

As seen on the Lorain County, OH list...

Peace, Judy


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Subject: [OHLORAIN] Togetherness :-)


> > -------
> > An item from The New York Times, Sunday, November 2, 1997, page
> > 33, "Metropolitan Diary," by Ron Alexander:
> >
> > Dear Diary: An older friend, recently returned from her home
> > town in North Carolina, says they've spruced up the churchyard
> > cemetery since her last visit several years back.
> >
> > "Lots of new greenery," she said. "And families are together now."
> >
> > "Together?" I asked, puzzled.
> >
> > "Well, years ago they never much worried where they buried
> > someone because everyone was a neighbor anyhow. They'd just
> > dig a grave wherever it seemed to balance things. But they've
> > redone it so people are with their children and grandchildren,
> > instead of scattered."
> >
> > "You mean they exhumed all those people and reburied them?"
> >
> > "Oh no," she said. "They just shifted the headstones. Everyone
> > agrees it looks ever so much nicer."
>
>
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