On April 25, 1974, the sun also rose. Little did Teresa know that day marked the absolute end of childhood. Thousands of miles away in Lisbon, the capital of a crumbling empire, the military had turned against the heads of state, and people had taken to the street en masse, handing out carnations to armed men who never fired a single shot. The ‘New State’ was no more. News of the revolution reached Mozambique the following day. Teresa’s …
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What do you do, when you are stuck at home, in a half-self-imposed sort of quarantine, and you are going through something you never thought you would experience, not in your wildest – and more pessimistic – dreams? Well, since you are privileged to be a writer, or at least to think you are one, you do one of the things you love the most – you write. You write about this experience, what you are going through, what is …
I’ m putting the dishes into the dishwasher. My elder son Afonso and I had to have dinner in a hurry “Mom, please, I have to study for tomorrow’s Physics exam”. Of course I hurried. He has been studying hard these last few days, and the last few weeks, and months. Since he got into University and a lot more before that – to get into University. So I’m used to the rhythm and I naturally adapt. All Moms do! …
