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"Experiencing the Day of the Dead festival in Oaxaca with a young man named Samuel and his family revealed the festival's more spiritual side: rather than just the spectacle of parades and face makeup, he witnessed how the family, recently bereaved, welcomed their deceased mother back for the day to spend time with her spirit before she departed again — an intimacy and meaning he said he would never have understood on his own." - Olivia Morelli