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Born in the south of Mexico, she was raised in rebel Zapatista autonomous municipalities to later settle down in San Cristobal de las Casas where she cofounded ''La Casa de las Flores'', a non-profit dedicated to educate, feed and care for the marginalized children living on extreme poverty in the streets of her city. After graduating from Nursing school she enrolled in Biotechnology and Astrophysics.
The New York Public Library’s Collection Of Weird Objects
Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman and E.E Cummings are just some of the characters whose essences are encapsulated in time inside the New York Public library's collection of weird objects. These include canes, letter openers, locks of hair, handwritten manuscripts and death masks to name a few.
The objects were donated in the 1940s by the brothers Henry W. and Albert A. Berg, keen collectors of English and American literature. Today visitors to the Berg Collection can only do so by appointment, yet is expected that the treasures will be exhibited in the Gottesman Hall by 2020 (something to look forward to). Meanwhile, we can admire them through this four-minute-long video and, in simple bliss, wonder what it feels like to be surrounded by the fathers and mothers of modern literature.
