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Mi Mexico

by Steve Harman
Mi Mexico store owner Jennifer Leal refills a cooler with beer as her friend Eddy Perez watches Mexican soccer on TV. Eddy is from Guatemala, but lives in Lebanon.
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
Jennifer Leal jokes around with some of the Mexican migrant workers who frequent her store, Mi Mexico, in Lebanon, Kentucky.
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.
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.
Mi Mexico store owner Jennifer Leal gives her Emilio a piggy-back ride.

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