CEMETERY DE LA LAGUNA
FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE LAGOON
If you look back there on the upper left hand side of the picture of the cemetery, there's the edge of a black building. That's one of the two very small chapels built in the name of one of the lagoon's deceased. That particular one honors a young 15 year old boy who died of leukemia after a doctor misdiagnosed his throat problem and gave him four unsuccessful doses of anti-biotics. His "casita" has a wooden door that swings open and closed with the wind. I opened the door yesterday to find a small diamond- back rattlesnake just inside, stretched against the wall, its tongue flitting away. I returned today to the cemetery at midday, opened the door, and there the snake was, in the exact same place, curled up sleeping.
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