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On an overcast Saturday last November, bells rang out from the carillon in Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University. Inside, people found old friends, giving them hugs and saying, “It’s been too long.” Death has a way of reuniting people, bringing together those who have been touched by the deceased for a formal time.