Lovely colors abound: terra cotta, ochre, pink, white and yellow accented by gray, beige, black, green and brown shutters.

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Silva, a pony-tailed woman with nails painted emerald green, made a small bag of brown and black cloth squares to hold the monkey, which is still too young to walk.

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The color should be deep black-green with a touch of glossiness and no brown blemishes.

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Other varieties come in many shades besides the common cream or green color, including red, purple, brown, black and the speckled ones.

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But still, he might maybe have been have just a little bit more precise about what qualifies a green job as being green, as compared with one that is brown, or worse, possibly black.

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