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We forget that groups forbidding certain relationships are not new. Governments and religions have forbidden crossing religious, racial, cultural, and sexual lines for friendships, marriages, adoptions, even where you were allowed to work or live. (And still do.)
One couple in the Netherlands were married forty years (to the horror of their neighbors) yet when they died, it was illegal for them to be buried together. Anywhere.
So cemetery plots were purchased on either side of one wall, one in the Catholic cemetery, one in the Protestant cemetery. And a pair of clasped hands reach through the tombstones and meet across the wall.
I hope it amuses them still.
One couple in the Netherlands were married forty years (to the horror of their neighbors) yet when they died, it was illegal for them to be buried together. Anywhere.
So cemetery plots were purchased on either side of one wall, one in the Catholic cemetery, one in the Protestant cemetery. And a pair of clasped hands reach through the tombstones and meet across the wall.
I hope it amuses them still.
