Years ago, I went to a funeral of a friend and the poem The Dash by Linda Ellis was read. The idea behind the poem was that the dash, the little symbol between your birth date and death date on your headstone, represents the time you spend on earth.

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One of my favourite things to do is to look through old photographs. My parents were good with taking pictures of us kids and my mom was even organized enough to write the date and location on the back of the pictures, before putting them into albums.

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