neighboring villages came together for a three-day festival. Our villagers, children, men, and women, have spent days preparing; they have gathered bushels of long grass (which they soaked, pounded, and then dried). The grass was then twisted and braided into cords and then woven together to form cables. The men put the cables over their shoulders and carried them to the edge of a rocky canyon, about 100 feet below them flows the Apurimac River . Our village elders chant blessings…
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