TASK DEFINITION: You are given a sentence in Portuguese. Your job is to translate the Portuguese sentence into English.
PROBLEM: Agora, esta foi a minha historia no passado, nos meus bons e velhos tempos de lunatico de direita.

SOLUTION: Now, that was the story of me then, my good old days of right-wing lunacy.

PROBLEM: De certa forma, tornou-se no meu "" alter ego "".

SOLUTION: In a way, he's become my sort of alter ego.

PROBLEM: Demorou quase 30 anos para que alguem no mundo resolvesse este problema.

SOLUTION:
It took almost 30 years for anyone in the world to crack this problem.