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YAJIRA, Santisima Muerte

Yajira, a 21 year-old transsexual sex worker from Guadalajara, gets dressed in her single room occupancy hotel. Just prior to going out for a nightâs work, her regimen includes offering fruit, flowers and prayers at her altar. The candles are to light Santisimaâs path. The "holy death" charm around Yajiraâs neck never leaves her body except when she showers. Some of this deityâs followers are so devoted to her they stage marriages to her.