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PHOTOS: Lantern Parade

Even with the rain as a guest, students from the Buenaventura Corrales School in San José celebrated the traditional Lantern Parade. Demonstrating their creativity, the kids walked outside the school with their parents, lighting up the night before Independence Day with patriotic lanterns they had made in various designs.

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