Chapter Five
Paolo: The Houseboi
Life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro was unimaginably hard in the eyes of anyone brought up in the relative safety and security of the United States. This was true for Paolo even before his parents were killed in a gang crossfire when he was ten years old, but got orders of magnitude more difficult after he was orphaned. Extended family did what they could with the limited resources of the impoverished to keep the wild and grieving boy from a dark pathway. But their best well-intentioned efforts only drove him further into the arms of the gangs that seemed the most viable course for him to follow. But he had the amazing good fortune to be noticed by Dona Christina, the owner and operator of a local b**m dungeon who always had her eye out for bright and a
