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Lives Lost: Young Brazilian mom loved dance, jokes and work

by Associated Press
| April 14, 2020 10:03 PM

From the time she was a young teenager, Rafaela de Jesus Silva had numerous jobs: selling fruit and clothes in the streets, pumping gas, working as a receptionist and walking the sands of Brazilian beaches in sweltering heat to sell homemade foods.

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