The Brazilian Jeron Wilson

In 2002 I met this guy at the Lagoa bowl in Rio de Janeiro who looked exactly like Jeron Wilson. Not very ironically, it turned out that his nickname is, well, Jeron Wilson. He’s an amazing skater, and I ran into him recently at a very random place, the Rocinha Skatepark in 2007. I say it’s a random place to meet for 2 reasons.. 1) Rocinha is the largest favela in South America, and  people go either because they live

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