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“Se Darwin e a tartaruga Henriqueta alguma vez se encontraram nas andanças deste mundo, não é uma questão de verdade científica. é sim uma questão de imaginação, e essa imaginação pode não ter limites se tu assim o desejares. É também para isso que os escritores escrevem livros e os leitores lhes acre3scentam vida enquanto os lêem e dão ao que neles encontram escrito todos os sentidos e interpretações que muito bem entendem. é, afinal, essa a tua liberdade.”

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Henriqueta, a Tartaruga de Darwin

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