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A different way of death

Our neighbor, who had been fighting cancer, slipped away yesterday in the late afternoon. One skilled carpenter made a beautiful casket, and this morning 5 or 6 folks took shovels and dug the grave. His casket was slowly transported the quarter-mile or so to the cemetery this afternoon on the flat open back [...]
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