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and explain that it was written in an incorrect way but the

storyline itself had value and she was interested in a

rewrite.

This was placed in the minutes of the meeting and the

author was written to asking for this rewrite!

I rewrote it.

She rejected it again!

In fact I rewrote it three more times and each time it was

rejected. The general rejection was centralised around the

fact that it had no relevance to a children’s story etc etc.

At every meeting we had, my editor, who was the buffer

between Nellie and the author, me, delivered the news

that I had been rejected once again and she, the editor,

suggested that I wrote a story that was about a little boy

who wanted to be like Pelé: “Que Nem Pele” - “I want to

be like Pele”.

I sat down once again; this time thinking out of the box

and wrote the story that you have now bought. Nellie,

praised it, accepted it, endorsed it and it included it in the

project’s shortlist which subsequently along with 13 others

formed our catalogue for the World Bank Project.

Nellie is still alive today, probably in her 90s and she still

has no idea that William A Pawley is in fact Guillerme

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