Because he didn’t answer, I resumed my old position and so did he.
“You know, Portuga, if you don’t want me, it’s OK. I didn’t mean to make you cry...”
He stroked my hair for a long time. “That’s not it, son. That’s not it.
We can’t solve our problems just like that, with a snap of the fingers. But I have a suggestion.
Much as I’d like to, I can’t take you away from your parents or your home. It isn’t right.
But from now on, even though I already thought of you as a son, I’m going to treat you as if you really were my own.
I sat up, elated. “Really, Portuga?” “I could even swear it, as you always say.”
I did something that I rarely did or wanted to do with the members of my family. I kissed him on his fat, kind face.
Chapter Six
LITTLE BY LITTLE, TENDERNESS IS BORN
“‘None of them could speak, and you couldn’t go horseback riding on them either, Portuga?’”
“‘None of them.’ ‘But you weren’t a child, then?’
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