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The differences between Day of the Dead and Halloween

A jar older than the walled city is coming to the museum, and the hall meant to hold it has not yet been built. Much of what this town owns arrives before the room is ready: a name on a terminal in another municipality, a crosswalk waiting on a budget nobody has voted on. The sargassum came back too, three weeks after the water had cleared. What does not wait is the work people do on their own, a fighter who began again at one class a week and is now training for Worlds. Tulum builds the room eventually. Here is the week while it does.

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