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AP PHOTOS: Hard life, smiles, in abandoned Rio building

By Felipe Dana | Sunday, October 22, 2017, 6:02 p.m.

In this Sept. 16, 2017 photo, Leticia, 15, smokes a cigarette inside a building that used to house the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in the Mangueira slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The squatter building is just a short walk from iconic Maracana Stadium. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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