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we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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When a dozen of the gravestones are desecrated, a corporate agenda may be at work.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
These travels have then influenced the creation of memorial and grave gardens back home, inspired by the first modern cemeteries where gravestones doubled as planters.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
These travels have then influenced the creation of memorial and grave gardens back home, inspired by the first modern cemeteries where gravestones doubled as planters.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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