Mario briefly described the quote that will appear on the headstone:
"While you are dreaming of the future or regretting the past, the present, which is all you have, slips from you and is gone"
He said that Despina, in her unsophisticated way, was a person who lived in the present and was always happy in the present - the way we will always remember her.
The quote also reminds us that regardless of promises of eternal life either in heaven or on Earth or of being reincarnated, until any of these promises come true - if they ever come true - they are nothing but wishful thinking.
The only real way Despina will live on will be in our memories, in our hearts and in the photos and videos we have of her.
The headstone will carry a reference to her memorial website - a tribute that will remain online long after we've all passed away - and cemetery visitors in the future will know what the wonderful, warm and generous Despina Di Maggio looked and sounded like.
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