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Dying: A Short Story
"Here lies the legacy of the poor, ungrateful savages," read the stone that marked the place of the unmark graves of the poor.

The students have been reading books on cemeteries and graveyards, but the ones that peaked the student's interests were the graveyard of the unmarked graves. Most students thought it was unkind or disrespectful towards those people to have their graves unmarked. They didn't believe that the city or richer people could delegate if a person should have their graves marked.

The teacher and her proactive thinking need to dispel the conflicts of the discussion, she commented, "Even tho it was unfair for the people's grave to be unmarked just because they were poor but, the rich still had to pay for their graves. It wasn't that they were trying to disrespectful by not marking their graves they just could afford it. In fact, the poor people were lucky they had somewhere to put their loved one's body because sometimes they would have to dispose them into a river or have it rot in the streets." she paused as the students absorbed her response.
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She had to ask the janitor to help her propel the cart, which was holding the tombstone, into the classroom. The tomb stop was ivory and had neatly written calligraphy with the person's name, date of their birth, and the date f their birth, on was a quote.

"This is a reputation of one of the most expensive or superlative graves made in the late 1800's." The teacher had announced, as she pointed to the tombstone.

Then another grave got rolled into the room the as a squared block of gray stone with chiseled in writing of the person's

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