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amanda_lodden) wrote2007-12-29 01:30 pm
amanda_lodden) wrote2007-12-29 01:30 pm
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Condolence card
The first item of paper found in the Boxes O' Family History is a condolence card from a convalescent home. I'm not sure if it was sent for my great-grandfather's funeral or my great-grandmother's, as their papers were intertwined a great deal. However, I find the sentiment in it to be quite beautiful:
"Life cannot be cut off quickly; one is not dead until the things she changed are dead. We live in what we have done, and our effect is the only evidence of our having lived."
"Life cannot be cut off quickly; one is not dead until the things she changed are dead. We live in what we have done, and our effect is the only evidence of our having lived."