Deal

Between the sea and the land is a broad walkway, almost entirely lined with memorial benches, backs to the land, views trained on the shipping lane the cannons once covered. It is the modern way. In our 21st century England, benches represent an acceptable way of taking the dead from their designated resting places and bringing them back into society. The shore was a long and narrow mausoleum, each bench a personal monument with a small apologetic brass plaque excusing their continued presence among us. “He loved this view.”

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