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Byline: Thomas Swick
Brazil may be a little absurd. But one must admit it has perfect pitch.
_Caetano Veloso
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SAO PAULO, Brazil _ Lilian lived in the Campo Belo district, across the street from a Shell station. There are so many Shell stations in Sao Paulo that the odds of growing up next to one are not excessively low, but it depressed me that first day _ before I had been made aware of the city's pervasive Shellness _ when Lilian drove me home from the airport. To her, of course, it was a staple from childhood: some of the older mechanics, she told me, used to help her cross the street when she was a toddler (she was now in her ...