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Mi Mexico

story by Steve Harman

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Terezo Mendoza, right, a migrant farm worker, begins his journey home to Matamoros, Mexico. His departure was delayed five hours because a new driver with the Adame bus company took a wrong turn at Danville. Mendoza passed the time at the Mi Mexico grocery store in Lebanon, where he bought his ticket

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Jennifer Leal jokes around with some of the Mexican migrant workers who frequent her store, Mi Mexico, in Lebanon, Kentucky.

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An old Mexican movie plays on TV near a display of baseball caps and license plate covers in the Mi Mexico store in Lebanon, Kentucky.

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Mi Mexico store owner Jennifer Leal's son Emilio sits on the pool table and plays with his toy trucks as she converses with her Guatemalan friend Eddy Perez nearby.

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Mi Mexico store owner Jennifer Leal gives her Emilio a piggy-back ride.