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Now on to our episode, this is the next story in our open door series.

Manus Arepas.

Enjoy.

I'd like to tell you about a friend of mine.

His name is Manuel, but his friends call him Manu.

Manu, time for dinner.

And Manu had two great loves in his life.

The first, of course, was football.

No, not football, the American kind with helmets and an oval-shaped leather ball.

Football. You know, the kind you play with your foot. In the U.S., we call it soccer.

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