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I hadn’t thought about Manuela in years. Then, sitting in a family’s home in a village in Bali, eating eggs with moringa we had just picked from a tree, I remembered her. An afternoon so far from where I grew up had somehow brought me back to a woman from my family’s village in northern Spain. When I was a child, Manuela seemed ancient to me. I thought she must have been around ninety, although I couldn’t tell you now how old she actually was. She had only a few teeth, and sh