It was all in the days of landlines. It was on my desk in the weekly The newspaper when the telephone rings and on the other side a male voice says “this is José Manuel Fernandes”. At the time, I sometimes wrote about urbanism and heritage in Lisbon and at that moment what crossed my mind was that it was the architect José Manuel Fernandes, a person I had never spoken to in my life. Was not. It was José Manuel Fernandes, the journalist I had never spoken to in my life, who invited me to lunch.
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