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June 2005, vol 1 no 1

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w f owen, USA

02-827

a Native American Indian man has been frozen for six months in the county morgue. he remains unidentified even after his fingerprints and dental records were circulated across the United States and Canada. dying of exposure on a midtown street wearing only a t-shirt and a Mickey Mouse watch, he will be buried this week as number 02-827.

cemetery
my mom’s headstone
not yet engraved

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