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Bullets and Beatitudes

From the May 2013 Print Edition

Antonia and Antonio. They lived in the same barrio; both were members of Our Lady of Refuge Parish in Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican city just south of Laredo, Texas; and I saw both on the same day about eight months ago. It was the day of Antonia’s funeral Mass. All her mourners remembered the señora . . . . Continue Reading »