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If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Coming from a small village north of Hamburg, where I was born in 1949, I have decided after I retired to live in Queensland Australia, for my wife from Rio Brazil the place to be. Maria Ines managed to convince her four daughters to live here with us, nearly there after more than 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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