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This chapter describes springtime on the prairie. Canadian geese ply flyways, check ancestral routes against hard memories, against ribbons of rivers. They herald the season, trumpeting the first push of Gulf air. Those who do not live to see first thaw keep the funeral parlors busy. The chapter then talks about the arrival of monks, émigrés come from out of state to tend the monastery's hardwood groves. The monks have become naturalized citizens of a state that specializes in death and dying. For a price, the monks of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance are pleased to offer an exclusive line of custom-designed caskets and urns for University of Notre Dame alumni and their families. |