by admin | May 7, 2003 | Charlotte
Breath of Life I can’t believe my mom finally found the coat and booties she dreamed of buying me. She wanted to see me dressed like children dress on cold days, and she always said that the coat had to be pure wool, red, with a hood and with black details. O...
by admin | Aug 7, 2000 | Charlotte
Breath of Life That’s how I stayed… tied on top of suitcases, until the moment we got on the plane to start our trip to Rio de Janeiro. My mother, as always, took great care of me, and always looked after me so that I wouldn’t fall. I had already...
by admin | Oct 1, 1998 | Charlotte
Breath of Life But what can I do? I always thought that I would be the only one who could replace the emptiness that my mother felt when her Três Marias, as she called her three daughters Teresa Maria, Claudia Maria and Paula Maria, got married, as well as her son...
by admin | Feb 7, 1998 | Charlotte
Breath of Life Days and more days passed, and in the same position I stayed, as if I were dead, because even a beautiful bouquet of yellow lilies was placed on top of me. Despite being apprehensive not knowing what they were going to do with me, I still had hope of...
by admin | Dec 19, 1997 | Charlotte
Breath of Life Thank God they left!!! I couldn’t wait to get out of that chair and start living like real people. How I would like to go out the door and run in the green parks of this beautiful city called London. Yesterday I heard my parents say that the city...
