Mom’s Grave Story

Mom tells of walking with me in the Harrismith cemetery after putting flowers – roses – on the family graves, when we met a couple looking at graves.

‘Do you know where the graves of the Bains and Bells are?’ they asked. ‘We’ve just put flowers on them,’ said Mom, taking them to the graves.

The lady gave Mom a little book of recommended reading which she read and thoroughly enjoyed.
She remembered sketchily, AJ Cronin, Lilian Beckwith, Delder Fields; and story of a man trapped in a mine who had to cut off his arm to escape.

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