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The grass is very green, so green it seems to shine reflecting the sorrow left in my heart I walk solemnly down the rows of the final resting places of people who were once alive once vibrant once young once old As I looked at the letters carefully etched in stone my mind wondered what lives were lived behind those names what were they like? who did they love? Elizabeth Canter born 1937 died 1940 "why she was just a baby," I thought. stone after stone each with a different soul that rest within Then all at once I felt and overwhelming emotion of sadness that both soothes and shakes my body only one lonely tear finds it's way down my cheek and traces over my mouth Right then in that moment my stomach felt weak as I fell to my knees to see the stone that had NO NAME Written November 16th, 2001 © on Nov 16 2001 02:04 PM PST   18 • 0 • 1

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