This is what I need in my life

I was reading latimes.com this morning and this picture was on the front page:

Then I read the article:

Prehistoric couple embrace for eternity
From Associated Press
10:12 AM PST, February 7, 2007

ROME — It could be humanity’s oldest story of doomed love.

Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of “Romeo and Juliet.”

Buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric pair are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, as their teeth were found intact, said Elena Menotti, the archaeologist who led the dig.

“As far as we know, it’s unique,” Menotti told The Associated Press by telephone from Milan. “Double burials from the Neolithic are unheard of, and these are even hugging.”

The burial site was located Monday during construction work for a factory building in the outskirts of Mantua. Alongside the couple, archaeologists found flint tools, including arrowheads and a knife, Menotti said.

Experts will now study the artifacts and the skeletons to determine the burial site’s age and how old the two were when they died, she said.

Luca Bondioli, an anthropologist at Rome’s National Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum, said double prehistoric burials are rare — especially in such a pose — but some have been found holding hands or having other contact.

The find has “more of an emotional than a scientific value.” But it does highlight how the relationship people have with each other and with death has not changed much from the period in which humanity first settled in villages and learning to farm and tame animals, he said.

“The Neolithic is a very formative period for our society,” he said. “It was when the roots of our religious sentiment were formed.”

The two bodies, which cuddle closely while facing each other on their sides, were probably buried at the same time, possibly an indication of sudden and tragic death, Bondioli said.

“It’s rare for two young people to die at the same time, and that makes us want to know why and who they were, but it will be very difficult to find out.”

He said DNA testing could determine whether the two were related, “but that still leaves other hypotheses; the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ possibility is just one of many.”

That’s some heartwarming shit. I need to stop sloring around and find my “til death do us part, let’s be buried in an embrace” mate. When I’m alone in my room, sometimes I stare at the wall and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call, telling me I need a girl who’s as sweet as a dove…but not until I play with a few more titties, nigga.

Oh, like you didn’t see THAT coming.

6 responses

  1. Nye

    Wow. And the grinches heart grew three sizes that day.

    February 7, 2007 at 4:11 pm

  2. Hustle Simmons

    I was gonna go with that exact quote, but decided to go with the l.l. reference 🙂

    February 7, 2007 at 8:25 pm

  3. jameil1922

    hahahahahahahaha. love that song. here i thought you were just gonna say maybe they were cold.

    February 8, 2007 at 12:16 pm

  4. RiceCrispy

    awww and just in time for Valentine’s Day… lol

    February 8, 2007 at 6:30 pm

  5. Dre876

    They kinda shaped like a heart too, in this day and age of quickie marriages and even quicker divorces, we (translation : i)really need some shit like dis.

    February 9, 2007 at 10:58 am

  6. Miz JJ

    That was funny.

    February 9, 2007 at 2:26 pm

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