It was Lorena, along with her in-laws, who made faroles (traditional lanterns), sang along to the national anthem on TV and then paraded down the street with faroles for Independence Day. About four years later, the school teacher began integrating Independence Day activities more into the school.

Since then, Lorena has built a reputation for helping her two daughters make creative faroles, sharing her love for handicrafts. She sits with a placid smile at an old desk in front of her blue house with materials she and her daughters have gathered—red and yellow cellophane, lavender poster board and a piece of Styrofoam on which they have outlined in pencil a Guanacaste tree and the national flower, the Guaria Morada orchid.

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