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Mariele Santarosa limits her social outings and shopping now that business at her Sao Paulo dental practice has dropped 80 percent in a year, a victim of Brazil’s longest recession in at least a century.
“Many people lost their jobs and go to the dentist only when in pain,” said Santarosa, 35, who spent a recent Saturday morning browsing in the Shopping Center 3 mall on the city’s Paulista Avenue. “I also ended up cutting the superfluous. Today I’m only strolling, doing some research. I’m just looking.”