All this happened in La Paz, in the Andes, Bolivia. My mom’s uncle, who was a peasant, was shepherding his sheep and cows in the field just like a normal day. He was carrying his animals to the hill, and it clouded over and started to rain and lots of thunders began to fall and one of them fell in his right hand. Suddenly, he realized that all his body was scattered, then, another thunder fell, and it crossed all his body. Since then, he started to read the coca leaf, sacred for the Bolivian people as a sign of luck.
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