I'm Bêtô

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 My name is Bêtô.

 That's the name Ni gave me. Originally, it was Bêbêtô. Do you know what Bêbêtô means? You think it's some kind of radish? Totally wrong, bro. It was the name of a Brazilian soccer player.

 Ni gave me that name exactly on July 15, 1994, ie on the day the Brazilian team won the 15th World Cup.

 That was also the day I set foot in my house. Of course it's my house now. My house now is of course the house I live in.

 It must be said so clearly, because usually, when mentioning the word "my house", people are thinking of the house they have left.

 People think of the house a hundred yards away and anxiously say:

 - It's raining like this, I don't know if "my house" will leak.

 People think of the house a thousand yards away and sadly say:

 - I don't know what everyone at "my house" is doing right now.

People thinks of the house half a circle to the left and this time they sobs:

 - I don't know when I will be able to visit "my house" again.

 On the first day of visiting her hometown from a faraway place, it was Ni's great-grandmother who cried and said it. I was lying under the table eating bones at that time.