In Mexico, a baptismal party to remember – A reporter’s domestic worker throws a lavish party she can ill afford, in an act of love for her daughter and generosity toward their community. From: latimes.com
Tagged: children, family, Mexico, mexico city, reporter, RSSPosted on: May 27th, 2008
On a recent Sunday, they raised an orange circus tent in the yard of the Castañeda family home on the edge of this town where wind-blown dust paints the landscape brown and gray.
The Castañedas are not rich people. Vicente Castañeda, the sixtysomething patriarch, owns a few acres of land where he grows beans and corn. Benita, the seventh of his nine children, travels two hours to Mexico City every Monday to work in the home of an expatriate American family: mine.”*
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