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MENDIVE (650 words) |
 | Mendive grew up in a crowded, tucked-away city neighborhood, with little traffic, where there are silk-cotton trees on street corners and yards with banana trees. |
| In this neighborhood, the case of a family like Mendive's, mulatto believers in santería or Regla de Ocha -- the syncretic faith derived basically from Yorubá beliefs -- is fairly common... |
| Ever since he was a child, Mendive had shown a natural inclination toward painting and artistic things, and a great love for animals which he always liked to have around him: dogs, pigeons, rabbits, ducks, fish, a peacock, a monkey... |
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