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Rachel Rillo for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Tayag owns more than 50 Spanish colonial-era statues of saints known as santos, including this one from the 19th-century.
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Rachel Rillo for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Tayag owns more than 50 Spanish colonial-era statues of saints known as santos, including this one from the 19th-century.
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Rachel Rillo for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Tayag owns more than 50 Spanish colonial-era statues of saints known as santos, including this one from the 19th-century.
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Rachel Rillo for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Tayag owns more than 50 Spanish colonial-era statues of saints known as santos, including this one from the 19th-century.
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Rachel Rillo for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Tayag owns more than 50 Spanish colonial-era statues of saints known as santos, including this one from the 19th-century.
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Elsewhere in Mexico, lip service is given to the old way of celebrating, but the new way often includes a perfunctory visit to the cemetery where loved ones are buried, a sigh and a shrug about the disappearance of the old ways, and a round or two or of chelas bien frías (ice cold beers) to toast los santos difuntos (the holy dead).
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"Elsewhere in Mexico, lip service is given to the old way of celebrating, but the new way often includes a perfunctory visit to the cemetery where loved ones are buried, a sigh and a shrug about the disappearance of the old ways, and a round or two or of chelas bien frías (ice cold beers) to toast los santos difuntos (the holy dead)."
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"Elsewhere in Mexico, lip service is given to the old way of celebrating, but the new way often includes a perfunctory visit to the cemetery where loved ones are buried, a sigh and a shrug about the disappearance of the old ways, and a round or two or of chelas bien frías (ice cold beers) to toast los santos difuntos (the holy dead)."
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"Elsewhere in Mexico, lip service is given to the old way of celebrating, but the new way often includes a perfunctory visit to the cemetery where loved ones are buried, a sigh and a shrug about the disappearance of the old ways, and a round or two or of chelas bien frías (ice cold beers) to toast los santos difuntos (the holy dead)."
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Elsewhere in Mexico, lip service is given to the old way of celebrating, but the new way often includes a perfunctory visit to the cemetery where loved ones are buried, a sigh and a shrug about the disappearance of the old ways, and a round or two or of chelas bien frías (ice cold beers) to toast los santos difuntos (the holy dead).
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