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Now I'm very famous here.
I didn't know what meant 'just Mother'.
I am the mother of...
J.R. !
Once he was almost for a month
Another time, more than a month.
When he came for the first time...
No one knew, because Anapolis didn't have television !
He was already a handsome lad. I think he was about 23.
An ordinary person. It didn't seem that he was Mary Martin's son
of important, powerful people, no sir.
He hanged around the city, with his long hair.
In those days long hair was still a taboo.
He went horse riding on the Belém Brasilia dirt road
in company of the peasants of the area
to drink 'cachaça' in the bars and they say
he also went to the cheap balls in the hereabouts.
And Mary Martin went to those parties
with Mr. Ricardo, with Ernest.
Ernesto loved to dance, to get together.
You arrived at one of those parties
called the girl to dance
If she refused you
she would dance with no one else.
At times there were fights, with knives!
Everybody found that American lad nice, beautiful.
She wanted him interested, to buy a big ranch.
But he preferred to return to Hollywood.
At that time he was a hippie all right!
J.R. is a playful young man.
One day I asked him:
Why you arrive dressed in black and leave also dressed in black ?
So people won't recognize me, Lucy.
One day she went to get me at school.
When she arrived at the door, there was uproar.
Police, ambulance...
What has happened Dona Mary?
Did you arrive in the middle of an accident?
No. When I go anywhere it is like this.
She only had peace here. She and him.
They sought for a promised land.
A land that was the symbol of all that is good.
Central Brazil was very pretty at that time.
It was the opposite of Hollywood and Broadway
That was a massacred way of life
where they have no freedom.
You put your nose out on the street and tizzung!
That beehive, that load of people on top of you.
It was much freer.
I don't know if all Americans
are good like those people.
But they got me missing them.
I went there as an ordinary person.
And I left as a great citizen.