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Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.

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Jessica Mitford
Age: 78 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 11
Died: 1996
Died: July 23
Author
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Writer
Oxon.
Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford
Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford
Today
Memory
Corpse
Sprayed
Would
Picture
Corpses
Trimmed
Short
Painted
Sliced
Memories
Dressed
Counterpart
Poor
Alas
Pierced
Whisked
Common
Funeral
Neatly
Creamed
Order
Transformed
Parlor
Pickled
Beautiful
Surprised
Counterparts
Waxed

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