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Meet some of the guests of the Wednesday hot lunch program, So Others May Eat

“We are very close sisters, like we live in different ranches, we love to see each other once a week in the feeding program. We eat and talk about our lives and family. Thank you for this opportunity.”
Doña María Teófila López González, 70 years old, lives in Rancho de Huerta.
Doña Margarita López Gónzalez, 73 years old, lives in Rancho de Soria.

Hardly a Wednesday goes by that Frank Thoms and I don’t turn to each other and say, “Man, we are so lucky. We are so blessed.”

We come to that realization early and often.

We’re both volunteers at So Others May Eat, the hot lunch program in an obscure courtyard of the Parroquia de San Miguel de Arc Angel in San Miguel de Allende.

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So Others May Eat — so much more than a hot meal

We were mystified.

One minute, Dr. Grace Lim is delivering her weekly health talk on Wednesday to the nearly 120 guests of So Others May Eat in the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel courtyard. 

“Many of you only have each other,” she reminds the elderly San Miguelians, all over the age of 65. “You need to watch out for each other.”

A frail elderly woman reaches up and asks for the microphone and Dr. Lim hands it to her.

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