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Polish custom. Bury the heart separate from the body. You live where you live 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 years in the Our Lady of Czestochowa monastery in Doylestown, PA, until his heart was finally sent back to Poland following the de-Sovietization of the country. ken -------------- Original message -------------- > I like this, Ken, really speaks to me... > but why Chopin & Paderewski? > > Janet, missing something > > > VITA BREVIS > ... > > tragic graveyard of bones the valley of ashes > > and of lost timex watches > > > > chopin and paderewski your heart will be elsewhere > ... > ------------------------------------------------------ > Janet Jackson > Poems at Proximity: > http://www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet/proximity.html > ------------------------------------------------------