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Day of the Dead Comes Alive at Evergreen Cemetery in Houston

October 30, 2020 | By John Nova Lomax

It’s Día de Los Muertos here on the East End of Houston. The sky is crystal blue over Evergreen Cemetery, and a soft wind bears both the burnt-syrup smell of roasting coffee beans and the low moans of distant train horns and the crowing of backyard roosters closer at hand.

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