“We make life-size dolls at the end of the year and set them on the porch or outside the front of the house. We burn them on New Year’s Eve to send off the old year and welcome in the new one. We should burn this year to ashes. It’s been a very hard year in Cuba. I hope the next one is better for us.”
Feliz año nuevo
Stories from Cuba are coming soon.
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