CNN — Karine Pitana had just paid off the last installment on her new couch when floods tore through her hometown of Canoas in southern Brazil nearly two weeks ago. It was just a piece of furniture, but for the 42-year-old nurse, there’s a pride in having worked hard for everything she owns. “It’s very hard, you work, you buy things with such love,” she told CNN, sobbing, from her brother’s home, where she’s now staying. She worries about all the precious things she might lose. “All the priceless mementos, my childhood photos, my daughter’s photos,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking.” The picture is a little different in Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul. It oozes a rich co
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