“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.” -Emily
I recently made a trip to the cemetery where my parents and brother are buried. My brother died when I was eight years old, and he was 13. It was a traumatic learning experience in my life. As I looked at the graves around them, I was surprised to find our neighbors who lived across the street buried next to my parents. Not too far away were aunts, uncles, and cousins. Immediately I thought of the book “Our Town” and the scene where Emily sits on the tombstone and talks to her neighbor Mrs. Gibbs. I relived visiting our neighbors' homes, playing dress-up, going trick or treating, and them taking us to activities. In the book Our Town, after Emily is granted her wish and goes back to the cemetery, she says, “Good-by, world, Good-by, Grover’s Corners, Mama and Papa, Good-by to clocks ticking ... and Mama’s sunflowers ... and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
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