My Diary
2025 · Legacy Selected Family

What I Want My Children and Grandchildren to Remember

Recorded as a letter · spoken in Portuguese

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Thematic imageA letter to the ones who come after

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My children: life will knock you down. It will. What matters is what you decide the next morning.

Be kind in rooms where kindness costs you something. Work honestly. Call your mother.

And if you remember nothing else about me, remember that I chose to begin again, every single time.

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my children, listen, life is going to knock you down, it will, and the only thing that matters is what you do the next morning...

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  • My children
  • My grandchildren

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