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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 Antonio Nogueira or vice versa. She

would not thank me for this deception I knew that

not only would she have found it very difficult to

make a decision, but I also knew that the Brazilian

educational system would have categorically

rejected a gringo writer entering their “Sala da

Leitura” - “Reading in the Classroom” national

project.

I thought all my troubles were over and we

appointed the Illustrator Odilon Morães an

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