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RIP Pelé! Not that I'm that grand a fan of the beautiful game but I remember watching video of him at YMCA soccer camp. Also this Atari Game, Pelé's Soccer: (Random memory: pontificating in a precocious 4th grade way (possibly to a bemused dental assistant, for some reason?) how this game was a great example of a video game could be a fun good game without being very faithful to the original sport, with each side's 3 field players running in triangular lockstep.

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From to-day I enter upon my 64th year. The paralysis that first affected me nearly ten years ago, has since remain'd, with varying course -- seems to have settled quietly down, and will probably continue. I easily tire, am very clumsy, cannot walk far; but my spirits are first-rate. I go around in public almost every day -- now and then take long trips, by railroad or boat, hundreds of miles -- live largely in the open air -- am sunburnt and stout, (weigh 190) -- keep up my activity and interest in life, people, progress, and the questions of the day. About two-thirds of the time I am quite comfortable. What mentality I ever had remains entirely unaffected; though physically I am a half-paralytic, and likely to be so, long as I live. But the principal object of my life seems to have been accomplish'd -- I have the most devoted and ardent of friends, and affectionate relatives -- and of enemies I really make no account.