>>Hugs.
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>You better not let my Wife hear you saying this to me. She is a very jealous woman and you would be dead-meat. You would need more than a stuffed pirahna if you upset my wife.
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>Why not just agree to an ending like "handshakes" <s>
I knew this would be the reaction. But for some reason we sometimes greet this way. Handshakes would be : "Apertos de mãos" ... it just doesn't work.
Ivan