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The Sol de Janeiro Jet Set Travel Kit is available at Amazon, and I plan on gifting it to my tween cousin for Christmas. It ...

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Pope Leo XIV, left, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, ...