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GraniteVigorously wiping off the dead grass and dandelion petals from the rock, the girls hand brushed a boney edge roughly. As she quickly drew her hand away for examination, she saw what her hand had lain upon. The right upper corner of the babys headstone was disordered off.     She took a moment to contemplate her blood expanding into the crevices and gullies of the edges gap. She scanned the knoll ahead and around it and spotted the chunk. She walked over and picked it up, her knuckles getting whiter every scrap as she clutched the severed edge firmer and firmer. Then she spotted the culprit.     An old rusted mower and a tactless, overweight nimrod with gray hair crowning it. With a whirl of adrenaline, she hurled the stone edge after the tractor. Had this man no respect for the souls he so violently cut over? The stone dropped ten feet short, and the man was unmindful(p) to it.     The girl, innocent and full of rage, dropped to her knees at her deceased brothers headstone. The only way shell ever see him. Only one tear savage the solely night, though. She wasnt as mad as she was blown away at the whole idea that, even though he was her older sibling, hed always be preserved in time, like the granite above him, as a four-day-old infant. She considered this while shifting her vision to the huge slab of white stone upright the left road.     This was the childrens saint, with most of the children buried around it. When her family came to the grave when she was in grade school, she used to love to climb on the smooth stone and teach the sparrows in their tiny trees dotting the plateau of the dead.     She shook this thought off with a cold shiver as the first droplets of a new rain fell tumbling on her jersey. Her eyes showed she was inattentive to it while she kneeled, slowly outlining the word "Joey" with her left pinky.   &nbs p Shed always regretted the fact that she never felt any realistic depression from his death, but how could she? She wasnt even a twinkle in her parents eye when it happened.