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"From this far away, they’re all the same place, right?”

wrote my friend N, an American living in Northern Ireland, explaining her cinco de mayo festivities: margaritas and The Motorcycle Diaries.

I followed much the same school of thought when planning my holiday: a few friends over for tacos with Compay Segundo, Manu Chao, and the top dance hits in Managua in the fall of 2000 playing in the background. A friend brought sangria & another supplied the margaritas.

A lovely time was had by all. It’s strange that I feel compelled to celebrate relatively-minor-in-my-old-life holidays here – first St. Patrick’s then cinco de mayo.