'Spaw, sadly, here, too many tokens of childhood on graves are stolen or vandalised, if not banned altogether by Church or cemetery regulations. My wife is an assistant churchwarden and last weekend I helped her tidy up some church records by reconciling details on recent graves with the paperwork. Sadly, there were several recent ones of child deaths and a couple of promising teenagers lost to road accidents. Even a cynical old jokester like myself, can't help but be moved by the toys & tokens left by their friends and relatives. Roger
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