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| | LifeWeb: Elisabet's Hapu Journal |
 | | Somehow we got there, to the top, to the snowy pass marked by stone towers built by those who had come before--the few people of Hapu, mostly men, who had come out into the world beyond their valley, or perhaps the priest who came once a year, or the schoolteacher brought in by horseback. |
 | | He liked their emphasis on morality, being a man who stays apart when the men of Hapu get into chicha and alcohol--the dangerously pure kind that sells cheap in Andean villages and causes sometimes nasty drunkenness visible in the occasional fleyes of women, even in Hapu. |
 | | One morning the elders came to sit with us in a circle on the grass of the schoolyard, to discuss formally Diana's proposal that she have postcards made from her photos of Hapu, to sell as a project benefiting the community. |
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