This is something that happened several days ago but I just now remembered it: I stopped at the cemetary to check on things there and discovered that the Matchbox cars, usually kept in a ceramic dish, had washed or blown out of the container. They were in close proximity to the dish but when I tried to pick up one that used to a truck, it simply crumbled in my hands. Now, normally this would send me into a tailspin but really, now, these vehicles have been exposed to every kind of weather, some of them for the entire 7 years....(seven years sounds like a long time, but in this case, it isn't). Something was bound to happen to them. Heat makes them brittle as does other nasty weather.
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I couldn't help but wonder to myself how much longer I'd keep this type of thing on his site, what difference did it make to have the cars and the angel statues and the praying hands? It would be significant to NOT have some evidence, some physical above-the-ground reminders of what type of person is buried there. A child, my child....
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Sure, I have the bench there to mark the spot and all that, and his tree, but the cars being left there, some by us, some by unnamed visitors, some by those who knew him....yeah, I'll keep the stuff there. I just wanted to talk about it some today.
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Oh, the cemetary cars! I'm surprised they are still there after all this time. Yes, seven years can be a long time for some things but not when you lose someone you love. Timmy was a special kid, those dimples and that hair, and all that personality. Wonder where that came from? Didn't Judy Hutchens' girls leave him a car once?
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