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VIRUS DIARY: Romance conquers ocean, outbreak and red tape

by Associated Press
| June 15, 2020 12:03 AM

SAO PAULO (AP) — The certificate arrived on the floor of an otherwise empty elevator. My 1-year-old stumbled to the doorway of our Sao Paulo apartment and watched as I picked up the document. She was the sole witness to the end of a bizarre Brazilian bureaucratic procedure.

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