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Oaxaca, 2026. Mara Hale is forty-four, has a bestselling book about grief, three thousand certified practitioners at seven thousand four hundred dollars a head, and a wellness company raising money on a deck with the word OAXACA on one slide. She has not sat with an actually suffering person in three years. Her uncle dies in a pueblo in the Sierra Sur and she goes down for a deed and a signature. There is no deed and there cannot be one: the land is communal, the agave is worth a peso a kilo, and a school exercise book records forty-one inherited debts that cannot be paid in cash. The assembly that will decide her case is a room she may sit in and may not vote in.
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Part 03
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Part 04
5:09:27
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