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Life in quarantine in a Botanical Garden in Colombia

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Everyday Alberto Gomez tends to his Botanical Garden, which he founded over 40 years ago in Colombia, the second most biodiverse country in the world. But the pandemic forced him to close its door to the public, and he quarantined there alone, among the plants and butterflies.

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