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The market women in Oaxaca were delighted with our kids, Zach, Liam, and Petie, ages ten, eight, and six. At just about every outdoor market, friendly vendors in large aprons complimented our kids—“How precious!” “Look at the blue eyes!” “They’re right out of Hollywood!”—and compared them to the blocks on a marimba, “small, medium, and large.”
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Wogan, P. (2017). Trip to Mexico. In: Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52264-7_6
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