I met this kid in 2006. I was no longer living in Rio de Janeiro by that point .I was living in a small town. A new kid just moved to our neighborhood in a couple of days he started hanging out with us, yep this is how easy is to make friendship in Brazil people are just extraordinarily open, I don’t think people from developed country can related to that, I suppose Gringos simply found out about that when they arrive to Brazil, I remember having a tough time to make local buddies in Canada it takes so freaking long, but that is a subject I will write about later. Going back to the story, why peanut?



Peanut became his nickname. He was one of those kids who was too small for his age, you probably met some kid like him during your childhood. His body was a bit disproportionate; he had a small body and humongous head and his skin color was brown, that...