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Opinion: Paradise Lost or Only Delayed?

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - One beautiful weekend morning many years ago, wandering among the artists showing and selling their paintings on the edges of São Paulo’s Praça da República, I discovered and purchased a lovely work entitled, ‘The Loss of Paradise: 22 Abril de 1500’ (‘A Perda do Paraíso’) painted by a wonderful Brazilian naïve artist, Tavares.

Two natives, surrounded by flora, fauna and animals, look out over the pristine beach at five caravels heading in to land and ‘discover’ Brazil. When originally purchased 20 years ago, like the exaggerated number of ships, the . . .

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