Sometimes, in biographies, the proper emphasis is not given, or we do not pay enough attention to the times when the subject is helped, encouraged, or spurred on by someone whom the biography ends up overshadowing. One thinks of that anonymous Uncle Cunha, whose importance in the upbringing of the young Fernando Pessoa cannot even be estimated, but was certainly beneficial and fundamental. People like this, like angels, tend to appear only a few times in a lifetime; they exert a decisive influence, but with a subtlety that is often lost over time, frequently leaving no record other than those that should remain forever in the consciousness. It is up to the beneficiary never to forget them: neither when, perhaps, he finds himself in higher realms; nor when he falls and is assailed by the unjustified thought that this earth is deprived of goodness.