A girl standing in the cemetery of Oruro Bolivia at Todos Santos holds up a picture of her dead father
A girl standing in the cemetery of Oruro Bolivia at Todos Santos holds up a picture with a photograph and the name of her dead father In the Altiplano of Bolivia it is customary that a family in which there has been a death within the last three years call down the spirit for a three day visit at Todos Santos On the third day when the spirit leaves the home the families go to the cemeteries to decorate the graves and say farewell to the soul of the dead
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