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March 2024
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The old-fashioned epitaph, a literary form all its own, runs to both conscious and unconscious humor, as this little sampling bears lasting witness. The inscriptions come from a number of sources, but we acknowledge the special help of Peter Beilenson of the Peter Pauper Press in collecting them.

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