http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/meet-mari/ Travel Reports and Iconoflatulence Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:42:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/meet-mari/#comment-1072 A Sad Day in the Neighborhood « Ruminations of an Expatriate Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:09:57 +0000 http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/meet-mari/#comment-1072 [...] a sad day for me.  Mari, to whose lavanderia I have taken my laundry since arriving in Xalapa and about whom I posted last October, died yesterday [...] [...] a sad day for me.  Mari, to whose lavanderia I have taken my laundry since arriving in Xalapa and about whom I posted last October, died yesterday [...]

]]> http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/meet-mari/#comment-914 Marie McC Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:00:46 +0000 http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/meet-mari/#comment-914 How wonderful to have such a kind lady take you under her wing! It's so much nicer to do business with the smaller, family-run operations where they get to know you. Better than the supermarket where I sometimes shop for food, where the cashiers are either surly or don't seem to give a damn about the customer. How wonderful to have such a kind lady take you under her wing! It’s so much nicer to do business with the smaller, family-run operations where they get to know you. Better than the supermarket where I sometimes shop for food, where the cashiers are either surly or don’t seem to give a damn about the customer.

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