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Article: Grave site to Web site, now mourners can grieve online.
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- ORian
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- August 14, 2007
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Byline: Ryan Knutson
Aug. 14--VANCOUVER -- At least once each day, Anna Svidersky's mother, Esther, visits her daughter's gravestone in a quiet field surrounded by pines just off Interstate 205. There, she kneels and tends the roses that she and many others still bring.
But that number doesn't compare with the hundreds of thousands worldwide who have visited the online grave of the 17-year-old, who was stabbed to death by a mentally ill man at a McDonald's where she was working in April 2006. There her images and own words show the bright young girl she was. Instead of flowers, her virtual visitors leave notes, pictures and sometimes videos.
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