"We do this as a last resort.... I don't snatch people's monuments."
-- David Dunlap, president of Dunlap's Pine Bluff Monument Company in Arkansas, on the repossessing and removal of the tombstone of Nolan Parks III. The Parks family said they thought they had paid their $152 balance. The balance has now been paid, but it is uncertain when the monument will be returned.
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