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Brothers search for clues to past in streets of bustling Brazilian city.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Brothers search for clues to past in streets of bustling Brazilian city.(General News)(Adopted boys'' journey takes them from an orphanage to Eugene - and back again)

Article Excerpt
Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports

Charlie Prengaman was a baby when he was plucked from a Brazilian slum for adoption. He never knew his birth mother, can't speak Portuguese and doesn't remember a thing about Brazil.

But growing up in Eugene, he felt Brazil in his blood.

For one, there was his skill at soccer, the sports passion of many Brazilians. He's been a standout player at Churchill High School, where he won second team all-league honors last fall and helped lead the soccer team to the playoffs for the first time in 26 years.

``I definitely think it's genetic - like in basketball, you have this thing called court awareness,'' said Charlie, 18. ``I have the same thing on the soccer field; I know what's going on all around me all the time.''

He said he also sensed his Brazilian identity in the stares directed at him and his 17-year-old brother, Jamie, who also was adopted...

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