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Timeless Light

E l M i n u t i t o

There are cafes, and there are cafes. We go to the former for our baser needs—a quick caffeine fix, an unavoidable meeting that should have been an email. The latter, however, we go to because we are drawn there, as if by an invisible line of silken thread. El Minutito, in Mexico City, is one such cafe.

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