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Jose Heriberto Garcia in his Mission Street taqueria. All photos by Colin Campbell.

This Mexican immigrant fought in the ring, started a dozen restaurants, raised five children, and never let defeat wear him down.

When 17-year-old Jose Heriberto Garcia came courting the young girl who’d become his wife, his future mother-in-law was so outraged that she ran him off her property – waving her pistol and shooting at his feet. “I beat it out of there, oh si, senor,” Garcia recalled. “I came back the next day to state ...

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