Maybe, instead of giving it to us, he wished he could be giving it to his own children in the city.
That’s why I hugged him. I think it was the only hug of the evening.
No one embraced or had anything nice to say. Mother went to her room.
I’m sure it was to cry in secret. And everyone felt like doing the same.
Lalá went to see off Uncle Edmundo and Gran at the gate and when they walked away ever so slowly,
she said, “They look like they’re too old for life and tired of everything.”
The saddest thing was that the church bell filled the night with happy voices.
And some rockets shot up to the heavens for God to see how happy people were.
When we went back inside, Glória and Jandira were washing the dirty dishes and Glória’s eyes were red as if she’d cried her heart out.
She tried to hide it and said to me and Totoca, “It’s time for children to go to bed.”
She looked at us as she said it. She knew that there were no more children there.
We were all big – big and sad, supping on the same tattered sadness.
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