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we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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My mother-in-law placed a speaker on the gravestone to play the Mourner’s Kaddish.
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Sarah Adler
september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
In the vision, Wednesday sees the bird Xavier painted on a gravestone with an inscription of Enid’s name on it.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Outliving Michael includes a photo of a rubbing, done in black crayon on white paper, of Church’s gravestone in Naples, Florida.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The brazen goofiness is applied to the movie’s howl of terror like smiley-face stickers on a gravestone.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
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Sarah Adler
september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
In the vision, Wednesday sees the bird Xavier painted on a gravestone with an inscription of Enid’s name on it.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Outliving Michael includes a photo of a rubbing, done in black crayon on white paper, of Church’s gravestone in Naples, Florida.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The brazen goofiness is applied to the movie’s howl of terror like smiley-face stickers on a gravestone.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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