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RE: A Walk with the Dead

in #life7 years ago

I suppose my family is odd, we often visit cemeteries and graveyards. We have some really lovely ones where I live, but ours contain graves from before we were even the United states, in 1600's and early 1700's, They often have the skull with wing carvings, or if you were to see the funny plastic gravestones they make for Halloween decorations, they seem to be based on those found in our old graveyards here in MA.

My little village has a lovely old burial ground on the pond in the towns center and we have even pic-niced here. A lovely view over the water, swans and birdsong, people keep it nice.

I even remember as a child going to grave sites on certain holidays to add new flowers and to remember those who have gone.

It's so interesting that you found that card.

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I'm from Philadelphia, originally, and I certainly recall those skulls with the wings carving. I don't think it's odd at all to visit, it's really a history lesson, a mortality reminder, and even a sometimes a date in the true spirit of Gothic Romance. This visit made me want o visit more. I also like speculating on the lives when I have very little info. It's a fun detective/inference game.