JOBS and even sewers are scarce in Formosa, Brazil, the sun-baked scrubland town of cattle farms and narrow, dusty roads. But if work and water often fail, there is at least one thing here that is sure as sunrise: When the schoolhouse opens in the morning, Rosemary Goncalves, 15, will be waiting at the door.
“She hasn't missed a day in more than two years,'' said her mother, Gail dos Santos, 35, as the two stood outside the family's toolshed-size hovel.
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