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From: "Linda Sponenburgh" <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Fw: Dear Ancestor
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 12:34:05 -0400
References: <DAV5HEtEYDJFZ30Z1WE0000f443@hotmail.com>


Thanks. That is a great thought and one that I will cherish.
Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Billy Jones" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: [TNDICKSO] Fw: Dear Ancestor


> List - Thought this was very good for researchers.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: lSent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:24 AM
>
> Subject: Dear Ancestor
>
> Dear Ancestor:
> Your tombstone stands among the rest;
> Neglected and alone
> The name and date are chiseled out
> On polished, marbled stone.
> It reaches out to all who care
> It is too late to mourn.
> You did not know that I exist
> You died and I was born.
> Yet each of us are cells of you
> In flesh, in blood, in bone.
> Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
> Entirely not our own.
> Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
> So many years ago
> Spreads out among the ones you left
> Who would have loved you so.
> I wonder if you lived and loved,
> I wonder if you knew
> That someday I would find this spot,
> And come to visit you.
> (Author Unknown
>
> The genes we carry today span a 100 years!
>
>
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