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De Tal Palo, De Tal Astilla 2 | My Parents’ Visit

Continuing, my parents visit, the first post here.

DAY FOUR:

In the morning on Thursday, March 29th, I woke up on fabulously comfortable mattress in Antigua to find my parents had…

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El Lustrador | Pueblo Press Issue One

The Pueblo Press is a series based on the strange, intriguing experience of living, working and existing in a Mayan pueblo in rural Guatemala as a US American woman….

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El Tobillo (or.. when I fell) | 75 Palabras in Guatemala

Before that day, that fateful afternoon, I could say wrist, liver, distinguished, decade, hallucinogen, family planning and chemotherapy in Spanish, but not ankle.
So when I called my host sister…

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Extravío | 75 Palabras in Guatemala

Shortcut.

I’d never heard the word.
I think I looked it up one other time, but like imperfecto de subjunctivo, it didn’t stick. And the term I found wasn’t extravío, it…