QUIRKY WORLD ... Good book ends with a deathly surprise twist

USA: A Massachusetts man reading a book at the beach found a box containing human ashes. George Silva told The Standard-Times he found the box wedged in the rocks, in New Bedford, on Tuesday. Inside was a bag that had the name and number of a New Jersey crematorium.

He called, and was told the ashes were from a cremation performed three years ago, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Someone had accidentally dropped the box while trying to dump the ashes into the ocean. He brought the ashes to a local cemetery on Thursday, and they will be returned to New Jersey.

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