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FOUR FUNERALS AND A WEDDING

                 One of the bodies was just 5 feet 5 inches long,

                               and missing its hands, most likely from four centuries

                       of deterioration. It had been jostled during burial,

          so the head and shoulders were scrunched

 long before the wooden coffin lid and

                   the weight of the dirt above had collapsed on it.

                             Flesh no longer held the jaw shut; when this skeleton

                       was brushed free late in 2013, it looked unhinged

as if it were howling...