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During my many years of medical practice I collected many “autographs”, of people that have become good friends. I collected a few of them for you. Professor Doctor Ermiro Estevam de Lima I had the chance of spending eight months with him, both at the Hospital dos Servidores do Estado and at his private office. These were important months in my training as an otolaryngologist. Professor Doctor Rudof Lang This was a special friend. In 1969 he and I created the Brazilian Otological Society, of which he was the first president (I was the second). We were together in many events, both in Brazil and in many different countries. He had an untimely death due to a lung carcinoma. Professor Doctor Iêda Chaves Pacheco Russo She was a professor of Audiology at the Catholic University in São Paulo, and also a good friend. She was brilliant in her work, with many published papers and books. She created the screening audiological test that Prof. Ricardo Ferreira Bento and I used to che