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77 Coachella
At the height of the grape harvest, many workers eat and sleep next to their cars in the Coachella Valley. After work, Agapito Hernandez and Manuel Gonzalez, two grape pickers from Mexicali, look for shade under a tree to cool off, eat and talk.

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