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The real Brazil is found in the home of a Chinese family.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

| June 02, 2003 | Swick, Thomas | COPYRIGHT 2003 McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Thomas Swick

SAO PAULO, Brazil _ In the morning, Eugene was at his post at the computer. Thin, long-limbed, handsome, preoccupied. Lilian had told me that he had really taken to Berkeley, and was not happy about being back in Sao Paulo, without a job, his California girlfriend returned to Istanbul. He got up to go to the post office, and when he returned it was with two chicken croquettes for my breakfast.

Around noon he walked with me to the corner, where the taxis congregated, and gave the address in my hand to one of the drivers. A group of them studied a map, burbling in Portuguese, until Eugene's right hand, held out from his waist, formed a ...

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