A BEAUTIFUL AND PROTECTIVE POOCH WRAPS HIS LEGS AROUND HIS SLEEPING MASTER IN A LOVING HUG
We thought long and hard about taking this image.
It was pouring rain that day in Rio de Janeiro.
We were under an overhang of a bank building, trying to decide what to do to keep from getting soaked.
We looked down and there was this great animal, protecting his owner.
The man obviously lives and sleeps on the streets.
His belongings are next to him in a makeshift cart.
With a bed of thin cardboard, he sleeps off the troubles of the world.
All of this was taking place on one of the most elegant shopping streets of the upscale Ipanema district.
We didn't want to invade the man's privacy, but we felt there was a story too true to not tell.
On the tragic side, no matter how much Brazil increased its middle class and scrubbed its image to host the World Cup and soon, the Olympics, poverty is all around -- and not just in the favelas.
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