[…]lodged on the top of an ancient sepulchral cippus

Mary was Catholic and Ron was Jewish, but they decided that it was acceptable to intermarry.

Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o'th'clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz'd me wholly.

So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.