A Curious Dream
Written by Mark Twain
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
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The dream comes across a procession of the dead leaving their neglected graveyard for somewhere offering better conditions... and a conversation with one skeleton suggests that material wealth and status is still an obsession beyond the grave.
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