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[Omnie]

Tonight I discovered that, not only is there a cemetery two blocks away from my campus (since I'm entirely lacking in means of transportation, this made me excited), but it's also fairly famous. Grover Cleveland is buried there, for one. There's also a website with fascinating stories about some of the graves. I'm going to drag someone along and go visit as soon as I can.

[konamouse]

[bagsbee]

evergreen cemetery?

[StercusMaximus]

I'm maybe a half an hour outside of Salem...Anyone else live near by want to take a road trip?

SM

[mapmaker]

[Speaker]

Well I thought I'd share -- still have to do the night pic and the 'fix-up' favors... and looks like the hat is as likely to happen as me making a wake.

Cursing Kink
Lucky,
I have kids of my own and I know how I'd feel if someone killed one of them. I visited the dead today with my daughter to pay our respects and look for someone who would speak for your son.

Willie Pearl Boyd suggests that Kink is an ill oily rap dweeb and Alice Hogan hopes Kink comes back as a hog in lace. Honestly, I think they were overly polite. Perhaps, they were just nice folks in life.

Blessing Victor
Lucky,
During our trip to the cemetery, my daughter and I also looked for a tombstone that could provide a blessing for Victor. The first we saw was Bessie Gleen Thomas who offered up this sage omen - he is blest. It isn't much but at least she offers some assurance.

Irene T Childs also wanted to pass along to Victor that she felt he should be happy that his body is providing the earth with enriched silt.

Buck Gordon also offered words of encouragement: G! Rock on Bud!

I hope these encouraging words soothes both your and Victor's spirits.

Death on Birthday
Lucky,
It is a helluva thing to die on your birthday. But Sam is definitely not alone. Here in Starkville, MS, I found a 2-year-old boy, Burt Rand, who died long before Sam did. I've included a photo of his tombstone from Odd Fellows Cemetery.

The Banker
Lucky,
Well, I figured since Maurice Pikar was The Banker I'd leave a fitting tribute for him at Maurice Ware's tombstone at Odd Fellows Cemetery. Here's a shot of Maurice's marker with his name spelled out in pennies.

Bad Detective
Lucky,
I couldn't be a bad detective either. I found W.W. Scales in Odd Fellows Cemetery and did some fact finding about him and wrote up a short note about him. Its at the bottom of this letter. I really enjoyed getting to know Capt. Scales and I hope he has family today that remembers him - at least there's one more now that knows he's there. I'll try to visit him now that I know him. I've also attached a few pics showing where I left the note.

W.W. Scales Bio

[ahecht]

^Darn, you took my pennies idea (makes sense -- after all, maurice was The Banker).

I'm just waiting to see how long I'll stay at #1 in the Fellowship.

[skywisej]

I did three of the favors tonight by visiting the cemetery where my papa and grandma are buried. I'm happy that this task brought me there when my everyday life doesn't. I feel like I should be ashamed that I used my own papa's name for this game, but somehow I feel like I honored him instead. I suppose that's strange, but its the way it is. I feel more at peace with death and loss today than I ever have. It's interesting that if you look at things just a little differnently, it really changes your perspective. Sorry for going all introspective here, I just had a nice evening and wanted to share

[bagsbee]

Evergreen Cemetery Recap:

As rose said, it took us awhile to get to this task since it rained hard for about 9 straight days. Anyway, Evergreen Cemetery is truly enormous. Luckily, all 7 of the gravesites were in one relatively small area, and it still took us about 2 hours to find them all. Thank goodness rose brought a compass, it would've been impossible without it.

I'll spoiler it just in case:

[Dascrow]

Finally got around to doing some small favors. Hungarian national graveyards are pretty impressive. I wonder how Lucky will like my tribute to tranny lovin' Vic: Anal Rat Hunk. I guess someone might like that nickname.

See ya at the tables

Akira187

ps. Royal Flush yesterday, only made $4k but it was incredible! W00t

[rose]

evergreen

[aliendial]

Those are lovely favors - I've added you to my quicklinks, guys! (Those that I did not have already.)

aliendial

[skywisej]

I have a quick question for those who have submitted favors before. How quickly did you get a response/credit? I submitted mine yesterday and haven't heard anything so I was just curious if it was the experience of others that it took awhile.

[thunderclap8]

The first week mine were approved pretty quick - a few hours maybe?

This week took a day or two.

[bagsbee]

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