Cecília, one of her daughters, Maria Lucia Martins and Cecília's youngest son, at Christmas 1999.
Cecília's two daughters, Herself & Maria Lúcia and Cecília's youngest son at Christmas 1999, at her house on Rua Maso di Bianco, in Rio Pequeno.
The first time ever I saw Cecilia, it must be 1963; she was walking past our house on Rua Simpatia, 42, wearing her brown school-uniform going to Ginásio Estadual Machado de Assis where she had classes in the afternoon; she coursed the 5th year (1st serie do ginásio). I knew this particular school for it stood close to where I worked during the day. It was located near the corner of Rua Simões Alvares and Rua Theodoro Sampaio. I worked right up on the 2nd floor of a small building which was mainly rented for families, except Dr. Flavio who made that apartment his laboratory, and I had been employed there since mid-1961, first only afternoons and then the whole shift. It was a private school for lower middle class kids.
Little did I know that circa 1964, I would have the chance to become an acquaintance of Cecília's and eventually a friend, until mid-1969, when we moved from Vila Madalena to Bela Vista and Cecília got married to a man who had bought a lot at Jardim Esmeralda and moved away to Rio Pequeno.
our paths went different ways.
