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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
One hundred 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.
by Walter Butler Palmer (1868-1932),
written in 1906
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How very softly you tiptoed into my world. Almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your little footsteps have left upon my heart.
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I am bound to them though I cannot see their faces or hear their voices. I honor their history, I cherish their lives, I will tell their story ..I will remember them.♥
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A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. When someone you love becomes a memory,
that memory becomes a treasure. -Unknown
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In the end it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
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You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time.