And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

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Audrey

Photographed by Jennifer Weber on January 27, 2012

Folly Beach, Charleston, South Carolina

In memory of the Charleston Nine: Nine firefighters who perished in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 18, 2007, the day after Father’s Day.

Of the nine, seven were fathers. Their deaths left twenty-two children fatherless.

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What delightful hosts are they —
Life and Love!
Lingeringly I turn away,
This late hour, yet glad enough
They have not withheld from me
Their high hospitality.
So, with face lit with delight
And all gratitude, I stay
Yet to press their hands and say,
“Thanks, — So fine a time! Good night.”

James Whitcomb Riley

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Fear not! I will save you.

Photographed by Jennifer Weber at St. Lawrence Cemetery on January 6, 2012

Charleston, South Carolina

Getting a handle on things

Photographed by Jennifer Weber at St. Lawrence Cemetery on January 6, 2012, and at Elmwood Cemetery on March 10, 2012

Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina