“Samantha”

It was late afternoon, and I was sitting by the pool talking to my mother and grandmother about everything that had happened in the last two days, listening to their advice, especially their recommendation that I should stop trying to guess what people were feeling or thinking and just ask them directly.

“If you had asked and listened to Heitor, you would have saved yourself a night of crying,” my mother called my attention.

“Sassá, you’re starting a family, you have to trust the per