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I'm revisiting a work published in 1947 by American author Neill James (Scribner). James was an intrepid global traveler with a book series called The Peticote Vagabond, exploring remote lands across Asia and Scandinavia. In 1942 she came to explore Mexico as a single women seeking deep cultural engagement with indigenous communities (starting with the Otomi). Well, her book Dust on my Heart is a classic account of these travels, culminating with here fatefull arrival at Lake Chapala in September 1943. She stayed here for the next 50 years, dying at age 99 in her home that is now the Ajijic campus for the Lake Chapala Society.

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