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crowd. “I suggest you get back to your work. As

for me, I plan to go to the cemetery and help dig a
small grave.”
As Earl and the foreman drove to the
cemetery, no one returned to their work. Instead,

they followed the wagon. As many men helped
dig the small grave next to the three new markers
that were already there, no one said a word. But
as Earl fell to his knees sobbing when the little

wooden box was placed into its place, people in
that small country town were changed forever.
As years passed, people who came to that

town said there was never a town with more
compassion. The old-timers would nod and say it
was because those who lived there had to learn the
hard way what it was like to walk in someone

else's shoes.

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