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Francisca and the Death
Holly and good days –said the Death- and none of those present could recognize her. Of course! She had her braid twisted under the hat and her yellow hand in the pocket. (In Mexico the representation...
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The Street of the Scorpion
Tragic, bacchanalian and scandalous was a century ago, the mentioned street of the Scorpion, for its continuous fights that happen at the setting of the sun, without the few police man could do...
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The bell of the eleven thousand virgins
Those times were different. The rhythmic flow of the passing of days let in the air a transparent joy. Like that the people lived, in a loving peace that it was shown in their faces.The same city had...
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The Haunted House
In the western corner of the streets of Alcalde and Juan Manuel, not long ago stood a beautiful palace built by the family Villagordoa. This house had more than forty bedrooms decorated with fine...
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The Mourning of Mezquitán
Amparo Velez, who sold flowers for fourteen years outside the Cemetery of Mezquitán told us the following story.Margarita de Rojas was a beautiful young woman, to which life seemed a party. Born into a...
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The Cathedral Towers
The Illustrious Father had no uttered a word. He heard the words of those men, he already had his eyes on one, and another, but did not open his lips to even say a yes, to refuse to comment on this or...
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The Fiends of the Smooth Stone
The silence of that Guadalajara in the first centuries of its history; the well drawing of lines in its streets, its sunny days, its afternoons of wind, its rainy morning… the ring of its bells, and...
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The Bakers
In the 50 decade of the XX century, lived in the neighborhood of the “Retiro” a humble couple of bakers, Mr. Genaro and Mrs. Chabela, they didn't have children because it seemed that the wife couldn't...
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St. Innocence (The Girl in the Cathedral)
Narrates the history that many years ago, a girl named Inocencia (Innocence) listened attentively to their classmates from school talked about their first communion; this was a dream for her because...
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And Guadalajara was full of Crosses
Our ancestors boasted of the clear air of the city, the lines of the streets, the graceful gallantry of its churches and palaces, the gardens of here and there or over the mud walls of the convents,...
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