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telephone calls but about 12 or 13 suitable

candidates arrived over a period of time, and we

spoke and I gathered their material and once again

asked for suitable material for the book on Pele. It

is a tropical state, and the weather was in the mid-

30s I went to my room to rest, to gather my

thoughts and filed the paperwork that was

growing. I lay on my bed and the receptionist

called me on the internal phone. She did not speak

English; my Portuguese was limited to say the least

and she put me through to an incoming

unexpected call to a woman’s voice who spoke

intermediate English. She verified my name and my

intention and then asked if I would meet a

particular lady who would visit my hotel that

evening, but I was to meet her on my own and she

would have an interpreter with her. If I agreed to

this, she would confirm the time on a later call. I

confirmed she confirmed, and we met later that

evening on a private veranda that had been

selected by the hotel for us to meet. The woman

was in her mid-50s and accompanied by what

turned out to be her husband, a man in his late 60s,

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