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In this modern world of microwave meals, adjustable beds, and instant internet access, it can be easy to forget what it was like in a time when meals took all day to prepare, you slept on straw, and divorce was unheard of. This first epitaph, which can be found in a graveyard in Leeds, seems to indicate that things were a bit different back then…

Here lies my wife,
Here lies she;
Hallelujah!
Hallelujee!
(the date on this marker was 1861)

In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery we find THIS commentary, apparently also a none too pleased husband…

The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.

Makes you kind of wonder what YOUR spouse is gonna do, doesn’t it?

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