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The Merry Cemetery in Sapanta, northwestern Romania.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)Containing more than 1,000 sky-blue crosses meticulously decorated with geometric patterns, red rosettes, and lively illustrations, the Merry Cemetery celebrates the ec)
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The story of a child who was run over by a car is depicted on her cross, center right, in the Merry Cemetery.
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Sculptor Dumitru Pop Tincu at his workshop in Sapanta.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)Before his death in 1977, Patras made about 700 headstones, including his own, in the Merry Cemetery. Since then, an apprentice of the late Patras, Dumitru Pop Tincu, h)
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A man cries at a relative's grave in the Merry Cemetery.
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