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Meditations: Greece Past and Present :: Reflections on Odessa :: Conversations: Scholars and Farm Workers
I stopped. A funeral was going by. A paupers burial. Only a woman and a child followed. I asked an old man looking on who it was.
A neighbor who sold fruit and vegetables and couldnt pay the rent.
He looked up puzzled. How could they afford a coffin, a burial site and a stone if he couldnt put food on the table when he was alive?