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36th birthday, 2
36th birthday, 1
My dad, all jolly-like: "So! Do you feel older??" Well, yes! But also happy and healthy...
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Uploaded on Jan 27, 2012
In the late 1950s
My mother (far left) and three of her siblings. The house to the left of the photo is the pink apartment...
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
In the Vedado neighborhood
On this walk we passed a tree with a sacrificed chicken nestled in its roots.
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Final morning, hotel view
Bar Monserrate
Bright, loud, fun, with terrific music and a great mix of Cubans and tourists. Our final night in Havana.
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Havana and harbor, from atop El Morro fort
We watched a cannon ceremony under a full moon. It was dark and windy atop the 250-year-old fort, and a makeshift bar served pina coladas.
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Me and Papa
An irresistible tourist shot at La Floridita, one of Hemingway's hangouts.
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Palm trees
Time has not been kind to my mother's childhood home. In the late 1950s, it was elegant, gleaming white,...
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Balcony
Preserved
Fidel, Fidel
Artifacts in the museum recounting Cuba's literacy campaign. In the year of 1961, the Cuban government...
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Entrance
Detail of the front door of my great-grandparents' home in Havana.
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Tiled porch
Detail of the front porch of my great-grandparents' home in Havana.
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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011
Havana, Cuba 12.11
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