A skeleton figure stands in a miniature cemetery, part of a small Day of the Dead altar across the street from the remains of Alvaro Obregon 286, where dozens of people were killed when the seven-story office building collapsed in the Sept. earthquake, in Mexico City, Tuesday, October 31, 2017. Mexico's traditional view of the dead is not ghoulish or frightful, rather they are seen as the “dear departed”, but this time many of the dead departed so recently that the grief is still fresh. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)
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