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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

The Professional Mourners of Mani, Greece

The sound is indescribable, a primal howl. If I’d not seen the source of the wailing with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it. Hunched over my grandfather’s body were three slight, elderly women dressed all in black, heads covered so that their ...


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