[SOC] Unopened

[Bob N0UF]

In a tiny village on the Irish coast lived an old maid.  In spite of her
old age, she was still a virgin and very proud of it. Realizing that her
final days were rapidly approaching, she told the local, part-time postal
clerk, part-time undertaker, that she wanted the following inscription
engraved on her tombstone: 

    BORN A VIRGIN,  LIVED AS A VIRGIN,  DIED A VIRGIN. 

Not long after, the old maid died peacefully. The undertaker then went to
carve the inscription that she had requested. It was then that he realized
that the tombstone she had selected was much too small for the wording 
that she had chosen. He thought long and hard as to how he could fulfill 
the old maid's final request with such limited space available to him. After 
agonizing over this dilemma for days, inspiration finally came to him, and
the following inscription was carved into her tombstone: 

   RETURNED UNOPENED