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Goodbye to Lique a Barrio’s Sensitive Soul
Mike Castro reflects on the funeral of his brother Lique in Barrio Logan near San Diego. The piece blends personal memory with themes of family, identity, and displacement as the barrio adapts to a nearby freeway and industrial change. Castro notes Lique’s tenderness amid harsh surroundings and recalls a last goodbye at the memorial mass.
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Barrio
Mike Castro
San Diego
Enrique
Henry
Lique
Big H
Logan
Gordito Kid
Sacramento
Washington, D.C
Delores
Barrio Logan
National Avenue
Moscow
Arkady Stepanchuk
Ukraine
Stepanchuk
Sergei Kist
Soviet Union
Kist
Logano
Our Lady Guadalupe Church
Market
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
The
Sacramento Bee