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Adios Mi Abuelo
Posted: Apr 21, 2010 4:05pm ET
I have been thinking a lot about Alejandro Robaina, the late great tobacco grower of Cuba. It’s hard to think about the 91-year-old no longer being there. He died of cancer last Saturday at home in his bed, and I can’t bear the thought of him not being on his farm, sitting on his terrace in his rocking chair and holding court with a cigar in his hand.


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