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For those who are left behind, there is nothing more dreaded than the black bag. The vile black bag. The temporary container that often arrives unannounced at Mexican and other consulates in the United States, carrying the last remnants, the decomposing bodies of unfortunate brave souls who dared dream of a better future and who went after it going north. Carrying what is left at the of the road: mortal flesh, but also unwritten epitaphs,…