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We recognize each other, the lost ones. In Mexico the orange flowers – flor de muertos - glow as soft lamps in the gloom, calling the lost dead home. We see the same glow – it’s a fire, but cold and slow - in the living lost. And so we know.
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 5:07 PM UTC
*Flor de muertos*
We recognize each other, the lost ones. In Mexico the orange flowers – flor de muertos - glow as soft lamps in the gloom, calling the lost dead home. We see the same glow – it’s a fire, but cold and slow - in the living lost. And so we know.
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 5:07 PM UTC
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