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Benita Alexander set on a rooftop bar in Manhattan.

She was spilling her guts to a reporter from Vanity Fair.

And I remember I was talking nonstop.

I just was like, it was just pouring out of me.

And he was listening so intently and not taking notes

because he just was listening.

But and I was just blah, blah, blah, blah, gushing.

She told him everything about her relationship with Paulo,

how she'd broken a cardinal rule of journalism to be with him,

how he'd lied about being divorced,

how he said the Pope was going to marry them.

She didn't hold back.

There was so much and he think he actually stopped me at one point.

And he said, OK, this is an insane story.

This is an incredible story.

Let me write something up and send you an email

and ask you some questions.

And that's how the whole wall got rolling.

Now back in Brooklyn, Benita was a single mom without a job,

without health insurance, and she was in debt.

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