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From: "Linda Kanoff" <>
Subject: RE: [ML] Genealogist Horror Story
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:44:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: <aa99183205080108191552fd59@mail.gmail.com>


Can you imagine.
Linda Joy

>From: Jeane Dalrymple <>
>Reply-To: Jeane Dalrymple <>
>To:
>Subject: [ML] Genealogist Horror Story
>Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:19:08 -0500
>
>A Friend sent this on to me I laughed at first but then I realized
>that it could happen.
> Relativism
>An older woman recently returned from her home town in North
>Carolina and told her friend that 'They spruced up the churchyard and
>cemetery' since her last visit several years pas "Lots of new
>greenery" she said "And families are together now"
>"All together?" her friend asked, puzzled.
>
>"Well," the first replied, years ago "they never much worried where
>they buried someone because every one was a neigbor anyhow. They'd
>just dig a grave whereever it seemed to balance things. But they've
>redone it so people are with their children and granchildren, instead
>of scattered through the whole cemetery."
>
>The friend was still puzzled, "You mean they exhumed all those people
>and reburied them?"
>
>"Oh my, no," the older lady said,"we just shifted the headstones.
>Every one agrees it looks ever so much nicer."
>
>
>
>""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""DUH""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
>
>
>--
>Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives and some weave
>gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and
>unique. Anonymous
>


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