5/16/2023 0 Comments Remo fernandisYears later, my mother narrated the gist of the lady’s talk that day. That’s how João came into our lives, and stayed for precisely half a century. Then the elderly lady hugged the boy, left him behind with us, and walked away. The lady asked for my mother, and the two women huddled together in serious discussion for a very long while. To the happy house which we rented from Eugénio de Melo on Rua Heliodóro Salgado, one morning came a humble elderly lady accompanied by what looked like a young boy a few years older to me he was slightly built, wore short pants, and had a friendly toothy smile. Now I know that he was an old man who looked young. I always thought he was a young man who looked old. João passed away peacefully in his sleep at 4.15 am on 14th August 2012.
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