Fans wearing the Brazilian national team's trademark yellow shirts milled around outside the stadium, where large cracks between concrete pavement blocks were filled with still-wet concrete.

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Or if we can't see it that way, we might just accept teens' potty mouths the way we do cracks in the pavement and overripe trash cans -- inevitable dings in this thing called life.

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