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". . . this is a glorious time to be a funeral,
this is pain and the human ability

to see stars."
-- Arlene Ang

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“. . . now I must celebrate grief with funeral tributes

offered the dead in the ancient way. . .”

-- Catallus

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"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading -"
--Emily Dickinson