But what determined woman was she? He climbed the stool, stood up, crossed his arms on the table, smiled and began to speak, his eyes shone at the thought of telling this story (these stories). To share with you, there is no other way than to try to reproduce the story, praying to do it justice and use the right intonation at this very well-lived time.
I’ll skip the first details and take you to a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, where in high season a country girl, fluent in English, worked as an interpreter to help foreign tourists. Black hair, white skin, young, determined and independent. .
- A seemingly much older German tourist leaned away on the counter and was certainly totally delighted with the beauty of this Brazilian girl.
- Who became very clear the following days.
- When he convinced the maid to let him into the room.
- Left).
- And filled the room with gifts and little surprises.
- To involve her.
- It worked.
- If you want to know.
After her initial disinterest in this old German woman, who looked nothing like her, accepted her invitation to spend a day ”tourist” in Rio de Janeiro and took a poorly run hike through the Tijuca forest, they got lost on time and on the way. and stayed inside all night until he opened the park.
Exhausted, hungry, asleep, she took an angry bus back to the hotel, although she worked in Rio de Janeiro in high season, did not know how to walk there and was guided by the German tourist (100% chance of getting it wrong).
They got on the wrong bus and ended up with the last Brazilian money I had. They returned to the hotel for a grueling walk.
“I was hungry, of course I accepted, asked for the best dishes of the restaurant, seafood, many things. When it came to paying, he felt his pocket and said he had forgotten his wallet at the hotel. I looked at her and said 😕 You’re making fun of me, aren’t you?
This tragic and comical relationship doesn’t end there, although it gave it a bad impression, it was quite persevering and all that confusion ended up falling in love with this determined and interesting man, a cold analysis of that?Gringo? Great, beautiful and decided you would have your son, an independent production!He’d leave soon and never know he left a son in Brazil. It was perfect for her that she wanted to be a mother, but she didn’t want to. be someone’s wife.
Did she? Well, the season is over and he left with a phone number, a mailing address and?A son! Although he had no idea of the last “memory” and she didn’t want to say it.
She did not speak German, he did not speak Portuguese and she did not want to push a relationship anymore, they kept in touch through a Brazilian interpreter who translated correspondence between them, but she never revealed that she was expecting a relationship. He sent the letters to the interpreter who translated them and sent them and vice versa.
In the seventh month of pregnancy, a friend who disagreed with the fact that she omitted her son from her father, although he did not want to take over, put in place a plan and put her on the phone with the German, understanding very little, but enough to understand “yes, your son”, she was surprised by the paternity along the way.
A few days later, he received a letter at his home with tickets back to Germany and a letter saying something like this:
? Come live with me. I want to have this family with you, here you have your tickets, if you are not satisfied here you can come back anytime you want.
Yes, she was! They formed a family, had another son, and she lived there with this man she learned to love for five years, until what?Differences made all the difference. The freedom between man and woman, natural nudism, his jealousy of seeing his man kissing on the lips of other women and speaking, naked, with other women, among others, did not allow him to adapt and suffering overcame the desire to stay there. . It wasn’t the way she wanted to live and he didn’t know how to live any other way. Then she decided to return to Brazil and he decided to respect and honor the “you can come back anytime you want”.
For all the years that followed and while the children needed it, they kept in touch and she returned to Germany to visit her and take the children a couple of times. The Brazilian interpreter made the bridge between them for a while, and then they managed to do it alone. Many years have passed, preserving the good relationship and a beautiful story between the two of love and sobriety.
Sitting in front of me, almost 30 years later, she finished telling me this story and I thought, “Wow, that brave woman, she decided to get pregnant with a guy she would never see again, and then she decided to move on. “in a totally different country, is that a determination?As she pondered these things, she said:
There? (and smiles) One day, I don’t know how, the interpreter found me and we started talking again, said he had always admired me and asked me if I wanted to go out with him.
I know my eyes opened and I smiled while I waited longer. I was reading one of those Julia-style novels, Sabrina, you know?But did I look around and watch the movement? It was real. So she went on?
? I said it would never work, it’s been so many years since our last conversation and we became friends in the meantime, imagine, by no means!
But am I going to tell you? Until the day she sat there on that stool in front of me, it worked very well and she was happy, very happy. He accepted the interpreter’s performance and told me that he had completed it in every way, and if I remember correctly, he is now 70 years old!
But the story she lived with the interpreter who kept her told me that it was a story she would soon tell herself, in a book she wrote.
So he’s gone? I remember watching her walk away and think about screaming and asking:?Hey, you’re real? (laughs). Before leaving, he even pointed to the direction of a booth above where I was and said:?My son is here. The most beautiful blonde you see up there is my son, the one in history.
Of course, I needed to go to the bathroom and look at the blondes on the way, I think I found their son, hehe.
I don’t know how old I was. He was about forty years old, but for the sum of the ages and years he brought, I suppose he was over 50, his hair is always black, his body is well taken care of, the smile on his face and the eyes of those who have lived so far, that he was not afraid of life or that he did not try to be happy every day.
It doesn’t matter if people blame her for being a single mother, pregnant with a man she may never see again, without bothering to let go of all her stability and safety and get on a plane with a baby to live in an unknown country. . Bravely to live a love in the dark. Determined to turn his back on him when he felt he could do no more, not even taking two children from his father. With the strength to raise children alone. With your mind young enough to start a new love story.
Their? I think that’s what it’s for, I think she’s the one who’s happy.
P. D . : This story is part of the Zen Pelo Bem project, where I had the privilege and honor of hearing real love stories and things like that.