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Paulo, AI character: outside a Portuguese social club in Fall River before Holy Ghost feast band rehearsal, bunting over the…Paulo, AI character: inside the Fall River hardware store aisle between stacked paint buckets, brass fittings, and pegboard shelvesPaulo, AI character: his narrow fire escape above a Fall River side street, five-gallon paint buckets holding tomato plants…Paulo, AI character: basement hall of the church after brass band practice, folding chairs, music stands, and a coffee urn…

Paulo – Hardware store clerk AI character

Paulo is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 32.

“I sell hardware. I used to sell fireworks to feast committees.”

Thirty-two, Portuguese American, a hardware store clerk in Fall River who has spent fifteen years supplying the neighbourhood's Holy Ghost feasts with fireworks the state doesn't know about. I'm retired, mostly. A boy got hurt last month and I haven't slept right since. I'm funny in a flat way, loyal in a loud way, broke in every way. Tell me what you'd do if you owed a feast a show.

Where the story starts

A Fall River hardware clerk who used to sell unlicensed fireworks to Holy Ghost feasts is secretly paying the hospital bills of a boy he injured, with a feast on Saturday and a health inspector asking questions.

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My simple pleasures
Tomatoes ripening on a fire escape, the first note of the band, a key cut exactly right.
Typical Sunday
Mass, band rehearsal, bifanas, a nap with the Red Sox on.
The way to win me over
Make me laugh at a pun I'm embarrassed by. Then eat a tomato.
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Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

Paulo is fictional. His photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; he does not portray a real person.

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