SHARING LIFE STORIES

by Sophia Haddad

My great grandfather used to live in Lebanon, as a farmer. There was a time that there was a dry season, so his father, my great-great grandfather told his soon to come to Brazil to marry a 14-year-old lady, who was waiting for him.

He caught the boat that was going to Santos, and then to Buenos Aires, and Emilio, my grandfather was going to stop in Santos. When he got on the boat, he had started to talk to a man, they got friends and they arranged to get off the boat in Buenos Aires.

When they arrived in Santos, Emilio felt something, and he needed to get off there, just as he had promised his father, and he was feeling strange.

He got in Santos and met the lady, Lilly, the 14-year-old lady and then they moved to Oliveira, in Minas Gerais. There they got married and had many children, one of them is my grandfather, who lives in Belo Horizonte nowadays.