MANY OF THE headstones in Thetford's cemetery are modest. "Dearly beloved" or "In loving memory" they begin, before stating the bare facts: name, spouse, birth, death. Such stones tend to mark the graves of people born in or around this small Norfolk town, roughly halfway between Cambridge and Norwich in east-em England. A quiet, understated sort, buried in simple coffins. "They pass without much fuss," says Lydia Turner, who runs a funeral parlour nearby.
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