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One Day in the Life of a
MEXICAN MERCADO
{snapshot from a day sometime around 1994}

OPTIONS:

• Download the entire essay. (No pictures, about twenty-six single-spaced pages.
• View pictures and a map relating to the one-day experience.
• Download only these highlights:
• Mercado colors and odors
• A man with a snake sells magic charms
• Twenty prostitutes promenading
• A cheerful, hilarious meal
• A surreal ending