Steven and Cassie had been married for thirty-two years when Cassie died of breast cancer. At the time, their daughter, Annabelle, was thirty. She was happily married and had three children.
About two years later Steven remarried. To Mabel. Annabelle was outraged.
“That woman!” said Annabelle. “She’s just after the money. She’s using my father. She’s a conniving witch.”
Annabelle never visited her father. Not even with the children. She would have nothing to do with him. How could he love such a woman?
A few years after his second marriage, Steven died. Of a heart attack. In the ambulance. On the way to the hospital.
Then his second wife, Mabel, died. Annabelle paid to have the gravestone corrected:
In loving memory
of
STEVEN
loved husband
of
Mabel
Cassie
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What an odd woman! [Please don’t tell me this is a true story……]
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Almost true! The two wives had the same first name, so only the maiden name of the first wife was added to the gravestone!
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Gah!!
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So many people must wish they had the nerve to do this! X
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😀 The trouble is that one cannot rewrite history. They fell in love with another!
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A grudge… written in stone. Very grave indeed.
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And he wasn’t around to watch history being re-written, too bad.
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My sister wanted to change our grandfather’s gravestone to include our grandmother and not his second wife. Fortunately it was a veteran’s gravestone – and such gravestones don’t mention the spouse… !
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How can epitaphs remain untouched with the stamp of the times?
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They must remain unrewritten by the trendy rewriters of history – surely….
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Mine could get really complicated, but for the genius of certain of my offspring who plan ‘Here lies Derrick innit?’
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Depends what they mean by “lies”!??!
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🙂
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That gravestone is priceless!!
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These days they usually are – along with all other funeral expenses!!
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Children are so judgmental of their parents! They put them on pedestals, and any descent from sainthood is never forgiven!
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That’s true! And getting remarried is hardly a descent into perdition!
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Who is to blame if the girl loves her mom?
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