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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Thu Oct 24, 2013, 11:42 AM Oct 2013

You only get one chance to make a statement that lasts forever...

Last edited Thu Oct 24, 2013, 02:38 PM - Edit history (1)

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You only get one chance to make a statement that lasts forever... (Original Post) MrScorpio Oct 2013 OP

Hrm, Xyzse Oct 2013 #1

there's an interesting story behind this orleans Oct 2013 #2

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)

1. Hrm,

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 02:15 PM

Oct 2013

John:
Free your body and soul
Unfold your powerful wings
Climb up the highest mountains
Kick your feet up in the air.
You may now live forever
Or return to the Earth
Unless you feel good where you are!

---Missed by your friends---

Had to write it again. It was kinda hard to see.

orleans

(34,060 posts)

2. there's an interesting story behind this

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 02:19 PM

Oct 2013

check it out on snopes
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/headstone.asp

according to the man who engraved the stone, the epitaph was requested/written by the man's ex-wife and mistress.

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