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Selling flowers out of her VW Beetle helps woman survive Covid-19

Valcineia Machado sells flowers to a customer [Photo: Ricardo Moraes]

You can’t miss the green 1969 Volkswagen Beetle parked at the corner, orchids and ferns crowding its open bonnet, sunflowers sticking out of windows, potted plants on the roof.

Valcineia Machado poses by her car [Photo: Ricardo Moraes]

Turning her car into a flower shop was Valcineia Machado’s survival plan after her business collapsed in the COVID-19 pandemic, and she is has become a hit in Rio’s Copacabana beach district.

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