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They shake their heads at a photograph of a headstone someone put up in a front yard across the Lewis River.

While Eureka and other places prepare to unveil higher-profile monuments and dedications, Dock’s headstone stands in quiet remembrance of a life upended by the purges.

Thieves took and damaged more than a dozen headstones from a historic cemetery in Compton that represents the final resting place for hundreds of veterans, including several Civil War Union soldiers, according to the owner.

Next to its headstone in the graveyard of institutions, one might also place a marker for the era that publisher Henry Luce once labeled “the American Century.”

The circumstances of the child’s death are eventually established as being bizarre and farcical, and along with a recurring gag involving the epitaph on her little headstone, it’s all supposed to be hilarious.