Stories of Paraná - Maria

Stories of Paraná - Maria

Mary
Juliana Vieira

Carioca Gemma, aged 11, chosen to go on the bandstand, and without reading or stutter honor with a tirade, the president of Rio, Raul Veiga.
Applauded news comes up in the Journal of the Brazil.
With lung disease from his father, moved to Barbacena.
Nestor, the first boyfriend, goalkeeper of Olympia.
But with Djalma was married to Mary, and with a conto, did all the trousseau.
The firm Dolabella sent him to a farm in Molevade and with it, there was Mary.
Pretty girl with brown hair and eyes. The little wattle-and-daub, light, lamp only.
Barbacena returned to have their first child and stayed there until I finish the Revolution.
Lavras passed by Belo Horizonte.
Two more children were born, one abortion and one child.
Port wine and marmalade to fortify.
Leave for Foz do Iguaçu, 24 hours by train.
In Porto Mendes, São Paulo, take the steam Epitácio to Porto, where they embark on Steam Argentine (Maltese Cross), 8-day trip.
There were almost 1 ½ years to Mary was purgatory.
Foz was horrible at that time, had no asphalt, 11 hours light extinguished.
Put the older children in the group, the guard post and little hats every day returning dirty white clay.
Noreen worked in the warehouse of groceries and also in construction.
Did the casino and the hotel Heels.
Womanizer like him only. At Carnival, Maria could not stand.
Dressed in black, went out at dawn behind him, the lantern in his hand.
When crossing the border, turned it so that the soldiers would not see her.
Caught in the act Djalma and the flashlight birthed a huge bump on his head.
Foz to Ponta Grossa, the limo broke in full virgin forest.
Nothing close by, only ocelot.
Maria scared some children on his lap, in other hands.
In South Orange, managed to ride with a truck.
It rained a lot and had no food.
Children were crying.
Reached Ponta Grossa five days later.
Passed Pelotas, Gale and Monte Alegre, where he lived in a house and made a pensioner food for very Arigo. Another birth to Mary, it rained inside the house, in bed wet and full of blood.
Twenty days later, Maria was leaving now to Curitiba.
Arrived on the last day of Carnival, 1948, at the home of the Seminary. The neighborhood, desert, had no light, only dead rats on the floor, and all had to sleep there because the beds had not arrived.
Djalma bought new furniture and beautiful, but Mary hated the smoke that was brick stove.
Djalma sold explosives, had 3 trucks.
Believed the word of the boss, a crook, and left with nothing.
But it was Maria and she only had a dress out.
Djalma Rego entered the War, life has improved for Maria.
Made layette girls, moved to Santa Quitéria and lived there until old lady.
Maria with their children, their grandchildren.
Woman suffered and lived a child's heart.
Maria always with a smile. Life was all that Mary wanted.
After all she was just Maria.
Juliana Vieira, publicity and artist


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.