For

 

Mercedes Cruañes Rinaldi

Erich Gemeinder

Francisco Marins

as well as

Helene Rudge Miller (Birdie!)

Nor can I forget

my ‘son’

Fernando Seplinsky

* * *

For those who have never died

 

Ciccillo Matarazzo

Arnaldo Magalhães de Giacomo

* * *

In loving memory of my brother Luís (King Luís) and my sister Glória. Luís gave up on life at the age of twenty, and Glória, at twenty-four, didn’t think life was worth living either.

 

Equally as precious is my memory of Manuel Valadares, who taught me the meaning of tenderness at the age of six.

 

May they all rest in peace!

and now

Dorival Lourenço da Silva

(Dodô, neither sadness nor nostalgia kill!)