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Anamaria Bud shows her “cat number” at the Romina Orfei Circus, parked in San Nicola la Strada, near Naples, Italy, Sunday, April 19, 2020. Anamaria and her husband Alyn Valeriou are thinking to leave the circus to open an educational farm. “But now we are stuck here” said Anamaria. The Orfei itinerant circus made its last performance on March first, after that show the national shutdown of public events to contain the spreading of the COVID19 in Italy blocked 94 animals and nine families. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ALT115 ALT115

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