Viana laced his fingers behind his neck and leaned back in his lounge chair, and his bald head touched the wet sock.

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The 89-year-old billionaire was hospitalized in August 2009 after suffering a head injury that touched off widespread speculation about possible successors to his empire.

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When they were silent in the pause at a traffic light, her father touched the open shield of his palm to the back of her head, the unobtrusive caress he had offered when driving her to boarding school.

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