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I’m going to be first to the stone.

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Jul 01, 2013
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There, out the window, you’ll see the shoulder-high stone wall that goes around St George’s churchyard and burial ground. You can also see Alastair Ballantine’s headstone standing off by itself, a good 10 yards outside the wall. He chose the spot himself and wrote the epitaph too: “On Judgment Day, with naught to climb, I’m going to be first to the ston…

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