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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 33 “So,” Tina continued, ignoring her, “we want to know the name of this good-looking guy. Which information could be useful for us?” “Obviously his amazing physical qualities,” Rosaria sighed again. “The area where he lives, together with his somatic traits, will tell us which community he belongs to and from this we can deduce a possible name,” Armelinda said. “In what sense?” Tina and Rosaria asked almost in unison. “Look at me, for example. If you knew only the place where I live and my physical traits, what would you think?” “Well, I wouldn’t know,” Rosaria was uncertain. “You could also be Neapolitan in my opinion.” “No, Armelinda is right: even if many of us Neapolitans are dark skinned, she doesn’t look very much like an Italian girl. I could think that you’re South American.” “That’s true, but I live in Montesanto, and excluding that I am of Italian origins and knowing that only two other communities live in Montesanto, the Sri Lankan one and the Cape Verde one, you should consider that I belong to one of these communities. Now, do you believe that my hair could be like that of a Sri Lankan girl?” Rosaria looked at her curly hair. “No,” she said. “Rather they have long and straight hair.” “And if you had gotten a perm?” Tina asked. “Don’t joke, try to ask Suthescika if she would ever want to have a perm.” “And so, we should think that you are from Cape Verde,” Rosaria concluded. “Right, and at this point you could go on the internet and see what the most commonly used female names are in the Cape Verde islands.” “Oh yeah, and how could we discover what your name really is?” Tina asked. “It would be enough to find the ten most common names and then try to call her with one of them. If she turns around it’s done,” Rosaria said.