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    Apr212007

    The Most Tended Roadside Memorial

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    Here's the photo i promised. This is just getting ridiculous.
    Quietly making noise,
    Fletch

    Reader Comments (3)

    No eternal flame?? What's up with that??

    April 21, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterCopper

    I guess I hear what your saying but... If I die I want to go out with a serious memorial. To me this is just day 1, when all they had was a little concreate and one small wooden cross on hand. That'll do for awhile. Then I want to see some sort of charity started in my name, and some kind of focus group (again in my name) to find out why there are car crashes on said road.

    Oh and just to be clear, I'm not all that interested in my husband remarrying. Kids really can live without a replacement mom, plus it would get in the way of weekly visits to the crash site. Plus if I can get the city to remember the month of my death as Elizabeth Rafferty Car Crash Awareness Month (ERCCAM), I need them free to make speeches and cut ribbons with giant sizzors on something big with my name on it.

    So yeah, I guess I am in agreement with you, that memorial was too small.

    April 24, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterElizabeth R

    [...] building? A cast iron gate and matching cast iron cross? They put some serious dough into this one. The concrete/wooden cross that I drive by every morning is nothing compared to this shrine. Notice a few things: first, the red warning signs are hard to [...]

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