Chapter 02 - Discussion.

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The pizzas arrived and Freddie approached Helena and the girls and said if the girls could help him pay for the pizzas.

– Of course, Freddie – said Helena.

- The guys and I don't have much money - Freddie said - You know about the band's financial situation.

– Don't worry, Freddie – said Helena.

And the girls helped Freddie pay for the pizzas.

Then they all got together in the small kitchen in the apartment where Freddie and Mary lived and they started eating the pizzas. Helena ate a piece of pepperoni pizza and drank her glass of wine, but she was quieter than usual, remembering her past with Roger.

Helena's flashback.

Helena Vieira Fontana Hills was born on September 5, 1952 in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the daughter of Giovanna Vieira Fontana, Brazilian, of Italian descent. Giovanna is a professor of classical literature and languages. Helena's maternal grandmother is Italian and her maternal grandfather is Brazilian. And Helena's father is called James Hills, who is British and was born in London, UK. James served in the Second World War and after the confrontation, he finished photography school and received the proposal to work as a photographer in a British art gallery in São Paulo and he accepted the job offer and moved to Brazil in 1949. In São Paulo, to learn to speak the Portuguese language he enrolled in a language school and met Giovanna, his teacher. The two made a great friendship and fell in love and got married at the end of the year 1951. And in September 1952, Helena was born. The girl, since she was three, learned to speak Portuguese, English, French, Italian and Spanish. The church that the family attended, Helena participated in the choir and even took some Latin lessons and the girl learned to speak a little bit of Latin. The girl was enrolled in a ballet school at the age of three and also learned belly dancing, samba and tarantela, typical Italian dance and learned to swim.

And time passed and Giovanna and James were proud of their daughter, because Helena was a very intelligent and obedient girl and also very beautiful. The little girl, since she was a child, drew attention by her green eyes, which she had inherited from her father and the wavy black hair and light brown skin she had inherited from her mother. Helena was just beautiful.

In early 1964, James was offered to work as a photographer at the same British art gallery, but this time in Truro, Cornwall to win the triple and he accepted. The family moved to Truro in August 1964 and took up residence in the Hurland Road neighborhood. James became the photographer for the British art gallery in Truro and Giovanna, Helena's mother, got a job as a language teacher at a language school in Truro and worked in the mornings and in the afternoon was at home to do the chores domestic. And Helena was very happy with her parents and the new family became friends with the neighboring family. They became neighbors of Winifred Hitchens and her two children: Roger Meddows Taylor, fifteen and Clare Meddows Taylor, eleven. The neighbors quickly made a great friendship and Helena got a scholarship to study at Truro School and for that, she will have to sing in the church choir at Sunday masses and at the masses of the cock and the girl befriended Roger, quickly, because , he also sang in the church choir and as Helena had a high IQ, she was quickly accepted to study High School and in September 1964, Helena became Roger's classmate. And the boy told Helena that he was born on July 26, 1949, in King's Lynn, Norfolk and after Clare's birth in 1953, the family moved to Truro, as his parents have relatives in the city. Roger said that his father, Michael Meddows Taylor, started working at a food company, as one of the food inspectors and Winifred, his mother worked in the morning at a dental clinic as a receptionist and the afternoon was at home for chores domestic. He said that Winifred knew how to play the accordion and when Roger was seven years old he got his ukelele from his mother and learned to play alone with a music magazine that had chords. At the age of eight Roger got an acoustic guitar from his mother and the self-taught boy also learned to play alone and followed only a few musical chords from musical magazines and his older cousin taught him more chords on the acoustic guitar. Roger's musical idols in his childhood and adolescence were Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Even the song "Rock Around The Clock" of Bill Haley was the favorite of Roger and the album of the same title also. Roger had a band formed by his schoolmates and they performed at schools. Roger told Helena that he has phobias for spiders, that he did not know how to swim, because he was afraid of drowning and sinking and also that when he was eight years old, he left the rugby field crying a lot because he had been hit in the leg.

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