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dustbunnie

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Tue Feb-24-09 12:10 PM
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35. I enjoy them too.

A walk through the really old ones and you can get a real sense of cultural history... just by reading the names, for instance, you get an idea of which were popular when. Even though there are plenty of books with stats relating to women dying in childbirth back in the day, a walk through some cemeteries and you can see the real tragedy of it written on the monuments. How much younger people were on average, when they passed. How a virus really could wipe out half a town. It's a shame to let these testimonies to our past disappear.

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