Right. And what a great idea! What a wonderful task with which to
burden your surviving relatives! <g>
So where's your heart gonna go, everyone?
Getting mine to its rightful place, in the vicinity of
the river Liffey, could be rather tricky.
Janet
Ken says
> Polish custom. Bury the heart separate from the body. You live where you li
> ve but your heart goes where you loved. So Chopin's body is at Pere Lachaise
> in Paris but his heart is in Warsaw. I believe Paderewski's heart was for y
> ears in the Our Lady of Czestochowa monastery in Doylestown, PA, until his he
> art was finally sent back to Poland following the de-Sovietization of the cou
> ntry.
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Poems at Proximity:
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