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The shell of the former St. Joseph’s School for Girls stands gutted and overgrown on Garnier Road, walking distance from the Spanish Municipal Marina.
The site is privately owned but the gate to the property is open; those who have come to mourn and pay their respects have hung medicine bags and wooden medallions on the fence and laid children’s shoes at the base of the structure on crumbling brick and concrete.
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Bright green foliage blankets the ground inside the building and the property owners have stacked firewood in the empty first-floor windows.