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Honora Spicer is a PhD candidate in history at Harvard. Her writing has also appeared in Pesapalabra, Asymptote, and Jacket2, among other publications.
Along a recently designated historic trail on the U.S.-Mexico border, colonial legacies hide in plain sight.
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