Summary
WHILE working on a story in Rio, my local guide is walking me back to my hotel.
One of the perks of being a 38-year-old freelance journalist is that I get the interesting foreign stories that the mums in my career peer group must turn down. I've been to the favelas (slums) and talked to gangsters, and this is the final night of my trip.See the full content of this document
Extract
Can Money Buy You Love? ; 1) Career Woman and Singleton Kate Spicer Is Planning to Adopt a Child at 38. Here, She Explains Why2) Lifestyle
I am sad to be going home in spite of some of the things I have seen, and insist we stop so I can drink one last green coconut milk at one of the beach kiosks.
My interpreter, who taught himself English from subtitled movies, introduces me to a street kid who lives and sleeps on the beach; his father is in jail, his mother is dead. He's 11, and must be incredibly tough to have coped with the cards life has dealt him.Despite this, within a few minutes he is sitting on my knee and I am holding him tightly. 'You really need some love, don't you,' I say, and I feel an indescribably powerful surge of ...See the full content of this document
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