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The touching traces of the past in church visitors’ books

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

I am memorialised twice in my village church. Not in some premature lapidary way, but in the visitors’ book. The first time was with my toddler, when I wrote her name down. Some years later I showed her that scribbled evidence and inked us in again. There we were, here we are.

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