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VampireLily

Vampire Goddess & Consumer of men's souls.
Jul 25, 2013
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New Jersey
When my dad passed away in 1999, my family went to choose his memorial stone. This little angel girl was up against the building abandoned.

"What is she doing there? " i asked the owner....

"Oh, she was picked up from the East Orange Cemetery, the family is having her replaced with a new one because her wings are broken off. She was on some little kids grave who died in 1901. She's going into disposal."

"What?! She was protecting a child's grave for a hundred years....you can't throw her out!" I started tearing up.

"You want her?" he asked. "If you can move her, she's yours."

It took three of us, she weighs well over a hundred pounds.

.............i just had to, if you can dig that. She protected a soul and i have to protect hers.


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Chuggs

Well-Known Member
Feb 6, 2012
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6,426
Arkansas
When my dad passed away in 1999, my family went to choose his memorial stone. This little angel girl was up against the building abandoned.

"What is she doing there? " i asked the owner....

"Oh, she was picked up from the East Orange Cemetery, the family is having her replaced with a new one because her wings are broken off. She was on some little kids grave who died in 1901. She's going into disposal."

"What?! She was protecting a child's grave for a hundred years....you can't throw her out!" I started tearing up.

"You want her?" he asked. "If you can move her, she's yours."

It took three of us, she weighs well over a hundred pounds.

.............i just had to, if you can dig that. She protected a soul and i have to protect hers.


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Very, very cool. Great job.
 

hipmamajen

Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess.
Apr 4, 2008
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Colorado
What a sweet story!

We have a lot of degraded headstones in the cemeteries here from the 18840s-1880s or so. Especially the children's graves.

For the most part they haven't been vandalized. It was a bad combination of materials and fashion. :-(

Around here at that time, many of the headstones were made of marble. Marble is beautiful, but it doesn't wear well outside. Anything soft enough to sculpt with a hammer and chisel isn't going to last forever in the elements.

On top of that, many of the children were buried under angels or lambs. Over time, the lambs' heads have worn or fallen away, and the angela have either completely collapsed or lost their heads or wings. It looks spooky, when it was meant to be comforting.

Also, the words are disappearing from many of them, depending on how deeply they were carved.

There are a handful of bronze plaque headstones that are wearing better. But even they are breaking down. More lately because of pollution, all that "acid rain."

There are even some wooden ones up there. They are totally unreadable, but look so interesting!

If you want your headstone to last forever, granite is a good bet.

I kind of like the idea of my headstone wearing away. There will come a time when no one alive remembers me any more, and it would be cool to be totally physically gone soon after. But, I know not everyone feels the same way...