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🇵🇾 Today's country is Paraguay. The world’s only national flag with a different emblem on each side. At Mercado 4 in Asunción, the air smells of hot chipa, crushed mint for tereré and bus exhaust. People switch between Spanish and Guaraní without warning, then hand you the same cold gourd in the shade as if you had always been in the circle. By sunset on the Costanera, with the Paraguay River turning copper, you have heard a capital talk in Guaraní and watched a whole circle share one cold…

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