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SNOWING IN BALI

a horse, and meeting with an unlikely horse, a 55-year-old Englishwoman, to buy hashish which she trafficked from India. His phone ceaselessly beeped with messages like, 'The choc is on the island!', or 'Can I buy one surfboard?'

He was also soon trying to get Rafael back working with him, but Rafael started keeping his distance.

I don't approve of this shit anymore. And I think, 'If I stay with him, he get problem, going to get for me too.' But I'm clear with him; I say, 'Andre, I don't want to.' 'Oh, let's make money together, it will help you.' I say, 'No, man, I don't want to get involved in this shit.' He knew my view, but he kept trying to push me to make money. I think, 'Are you my friend, or some evil person who wants to fuck me?'

— Rafael

Even seeing Andre's fast return to living in style didn't change his mind. Andre took out a three-year lease on a newly built, two storey house among rice paddies. The property comprised three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a swimming pool, and was just 200 metres from Canggu beach. He bought a new car, a fake Harley-Davidson, two scooters, a plasma TV and a bunch of new surfboards. He even got braces on his teeth to close a gap in the front that had widened in jail. He invested in a new restaurant on the beach and was living with a beautiful Indonesian girlfriend. The only thing Andre couldn't do was safely leave Bali.

I'm living now like a movie. I really had to make a choice about my life. Keep this life, or back to normal life. And I chose to keep my life like a movie. Day by day I party, crazy things on the phone, I chose this for my life.

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