You just knew a city like this was going to fuel
my façade fetish, didn't you?
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It appears word travels slowly in this part of Brazil ... three
weeks after Brazil's football team was knocked out of the World Cup,
this storefront was still proclaiming, "O hexa é nossa!" -- "The sixth
[championship] is ours!" Or maybe they're just looking ahead to 2010 ...
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