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Dear Michael,

 

I listening to your South American music show this afternoon on NPR and I enjoyed it thoroughly.  One song in particular, a club mix by a female singer...it transported me back to Rio, and I would love to buy the CD.  Saudade was the song perhaps?  Can you help?

 

Thank you for your great show,

 

S.

 

Above is an email I sent to the host of this music show on NPR. I will be buying this CD if I get a reply. I was in Brazil five years ago, the spring of 1999, and it was incredible. Another world. I would like to go back.

I knew a girl, someone who I used to wait tables with, who lived in Brazil for years. She was a tall blonde, tan and thin. She married a guy who lived down there when she was 21, and then they divorced when she tried to move him back to Illinois, where she was from. He didn't fit into that world. She felt like she was taking a harbor seal to the desert. It wasn't fair to him, and it diminished him. In the end she set him free, and he went back below the equator to his country, but she said she will always love him. She missed him, and her international exploration, her homeless, roaming days. I missed those days too, just hearing her talk about them.