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The next weekend I took a group of friends to the Day of the Dead exhibit at the Mexican Fine Arts Museum. I was last there with John and Paula and Kati, just a year ago, as we ran through Chicago looking for a perfect senior photo for Kati. <a href="http://debacle.org/gallery/v/cousin-report-04/At_the_Mexican_Fine_Arts_Museum.jpg.html">This one</a> is the attempt from the museum. Ultimately, it lost out to <a href="http://debacle.org/gallery/v/cousin-report-04/kate_w_aura.jpg.html">this one</a>. But this year, of course, all I could think of was that last year's visit was the last time I saw Paula. So I picked up a paper mache pumpkin and some flowers and upgraded my own modest <a href="http://www.elpayaso.com/ofrenda.htm">ofrenda</a> for Paula. Besides the pumpkin and the flowers, it has a photo of her leading a group of letterboxers on Presque Isle, a piece of Lake Superior beach glass, a small bench she gave us one holiday, and one of her best pins. This one has a mathematical theme. I particularly like the sign language for the x and y axes. We all miss her so much.