headstone
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"Psychologically, no, of course it didn't help - how could it?" said another woman, who had purchased an AI-generated photo of her late husband for his headstone.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Second, a granite headstone, measuring six feet by three feet, will be erected.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026
A few pens have been left on the headstone, which has been replaced at least once; generations of fans have attempted to obliterate “Hughes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Other notable artifacts connected to St. Eustatius are a headstone from its Jewish cemetery, commemorating a merchant’s wife, and a Hanukkah lamp from Amsterdam that was eventually carried to St. Thomas by Jewish exiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Later his family had a headstone put in place that bore this warning verse:
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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The “expat graveyard” is filled with headstones of people who boldly declared, “We love it here. We’re never leaving.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
I’d have my older sister, Marie, take me there to create full characters based on the names on headstones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
An artist, she’s been drawing picture after picture of dogs since then, or images of headstones that say, “Jan. 8 RIP Jon Snow I love you,” and collecting small plastic husky figurines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
The newest headstones on the freshly-dug fringes of the graveyard tell an alarming story of a lost generation in this pretty tourist town on Scotland's west coast.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
They would sit on the ground among the old headstones and wait until the sage had burned away, and Ash still remembered the way she would fidget after only a few moments of stillness.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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