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In Peru, virus erodes centuries-old burial traditions

by Associated Press
| September 2, 2020 7:27 AM

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Every day Joselyn García lights two red candles before a marble urn that holds her mother's ashes in the living room of her wooden home in the north of Peru’s capital.

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