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Old 02-20-2010, 08:37 PM   #5
Céline
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Default Re: Montreal and her beautiful Royal Mount

did you see this?

Comments: Implausible as it seems, existing press coverage confirms that this is a real epitaph carved into the back of a tombstone located in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery in Montreal, Quebec:

JOHN,

FREE YOUR BODY AND SOUL
UNFOLD YOUR POWERFUL WINGS
CLIMB UP THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS
KICK YOUR FEET UP IN THE AIR
YOU MAY NOW LIVE FOREVER
OR RETURN TO THIS EARTH
UNLESS YOU FEEL GOOD WHERE YOU ARE!

MISSED BY YOUR FRIENDS

The headstone, which some accounts mistakenly place in the nearby Mount Royal Cemetery, belongs to John Laird McCaffrey, who died in 1995 at the age of 54. By forming an acrostic using the first letter of each line, a secret message is revealed: "**** YOU."

With friends like these, it's safe to say Mr. McCaffrey needed no enemies.


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