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Molly McDonough

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Molly is a writer and editor based in Vermont.
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One of Zufferey's engraved wheels of cheese.

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The Valley of the Cheese of the Dead

In this remote Swiss town, residents spent a lifetime aging a wheel for their own funeral.

By Molly McDonough

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