The idea was that anything that pure would refuse to cross over a grave inhabited by some kind of evil pollutant.

这是因为所有纯洁的东西，都会拒绝跨越由于被邪恶的生命居住而污染的坟墓。

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Then he could have the funeral she had planned for him, with the horse-drawn hearse, and his grave would be marked with the wooden cross she kept on the mantlepiece.

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Niall Meehan, the head of journalism at Griffith College, found the unmarked grave of 219 Bethany Home children at Mount Jerome cemetery near Harold's Cross in south Dublin.

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