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Ribbons for mothers hang on a wall near the cemetery's entrance. |
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A cemetery visitor leaves flowers at the memorial to the four Bodmer girls, who died around the turn of the century. |
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A flower and other gifts for the Bodmer girls. |
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Flower stalls near the cemetery. Mother's day is a big day for them - or should be. |
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This woman, who sells flowers with her son inside the cemetery gates, told me that they were the cemetery's first vendors. |
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Another vendor, who has sold on the sidewalk for 45 years near the English Cemetery. She can't earn more than a few thousands pesos a day, but is always cheerful. |
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Cecilia and her daughter Yolanda have vended flowers near the cemetery for 50 years. They said that on an average day they can sell 25,000 pesos in flowers - but they spend half of that buying the flowers, more on renting the storage space and another couple thousand pesos on bus fare to and from Soacha, where they live. |
Cecilia said that decades ago when the cemetery was larger they "sold all the flowers they could cut." Today was a disappointment for her, with only 30,000 pesos of income. "We didn't make anything," she said.
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Cecilia pays 100,000 pesos per month to store her flowers behind the cemetery, between the headstone carvers' shops. |
By Mike Ceaser, of
Bogotá Bike Tours
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