Dear Readers, Every now and then life quietly joins two moments separated by decades. Last week, that happened to me. Thirty years ago, I took a sabbatical from my demanding career in London to volunteer at an orphanage in the hills of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro. I was thirty-four, single, lonely, and searching for something more meaningful than the life I had built for myself. The home provided a safe haven for children who had been abandoned or rescued from desperate circumstances. I...

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