“Uncle Edmundo. He said Luciano’s good at it, and if Luciano’s smaller than me, then I’ll be better...”
“I’ll talk to Jandira.” “Why bother? She’ll say yes. All Jandira does is read novels and think about her boyfriends. She doesn’t care.”
“Let’s do this: finish your breakfast and we’ll go to the gate. If we see someone we know who’s heading that way,
I’ll ask them to go with you.” I didn’t even want to eat any bread, so as not to waste time.
We went to the gate. Nothing passed except time. But that ended up passing too.
Along came Seu Paixão, the postman. He waved to Glória, took off his cap and offered to accompany us.
Glória kissed Luís and kissed me. She asked with a teary smile, “What was that thing about a private and his boots?”
“It’s not true. I didn’t mean it. You’re going to marry an aeroplane major with a bunch of stars on his shoulder.”
“Why didn’t you go with Totoca?” “He said he wasn’t going. And that he wasn’t in the mood to go lugging ‘baggage’ around.”
We set off. Seu Paixão told us to go on ahead and went along delivering letters to the houses.
Then he would quicken his step and catch up with us. He did it over and over.
When we reached the highway, he laughed and said, “Boys, I’ve got to speed up.
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