South American and Caribbean cultures have long used sour oranges in ceviches and sauces, so when you shop for them, a neighborhood bodega is a good bet.

Community may now manifest itself in the suburban shopping mall, the neighborhood bodega, behind gated private enclaves and on the Internet, but the mythical appeal of small towns endures.

Men sitting outside the one neighborhood bodega said more men from the village were living in the United States than in Apixita.

Hernandez worked at a neighborhood bodega that Patz may have entered; Hernandez said he later threw Patz's remains into the garbage.

"If you must do your grocery shopping at the convenience store on the highway or the neighborhood bodega," she said, "you are paying an exaggerated price for a limited supply in terms of nutrition."

The baby that prompts Maribel's theological ruminations is born on the opening day of "The Chin Kiss King," Feb. 29, 1992, when Cuca is sniffing that inexplicable honeysuckle and communing with her dead husband while Adela plays Lotto at the neighborhood bodega.

After a couple of blocks, Sampson pulled over in front of a ramshackle neighborhood bodega covered with beer and soda posters.

For a 34-year-old woman in Brooklyn a night earlier, it came during a trip to the neighborhood bodega.

On her way to a neighborhood bodega, Nicole sees a child throw a handful of stardust into the air; at least that's what it looks like.

It was always there, he thought, and one day when he had a day off from his job in a neighborhood bodega he would visit.