“You choose to be meu pai and fight for me when you don’t need to, and that’s how you taught me by example to always choose that it’s true, it doesn’t matter or how difficult the battle is.”
In the same night, under the starry and serene sky on the varanda of an immense house, Antônio and Beatriz, now united by unbreakable ties of mutual gratitude, eternal partnership and a deep family affection built over two years, share a comfortable and meaningful silence.
Antônio looked back, for the empire he built, and realized with crystal clear clarity that companies, profits, and status have never really understood.
The true, inescapable wealth of his life had begun with a desperate cry of dying from his kitchen, culminating in the unconditional love of a child who did not have his blood running in his eyes, but which he possessed entirely, and forever, in his heart.
Life, with all its wonderful unpredictability, had proven once and for all that the most beautiful and lasting miracles often arise in the moments in which we are most terrified and vulnerable,
Just enough extraordinary courage to extend love and love next week absolutely without reserve.