The sun had already set when my phone lit up with a message from Edgar: “Un incendio en el cerro, se puede ver desde la casa.”
“A fire on the hill can be seen from the house.”
In Oaxaca the seasons are a bit reversed from what Americans are used to, and our hottest months are in April and May. This year, though, the heat began exceptionally early, in late…
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