The people of Manila deserted the streets to crowd in front of television screens and watch the most successful Filipino athlete of all time enter the ring.

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The nearly 20-year-old has been living with her parents in a handsome single-family home in Schwarzkollm, a village on the outskirts of Hoyerswerda with old farm houses, front yards with flower beds and a new neighborhood in which houses sprang up one after the other in a ring.

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