She learned to think at a young age and because she hadn’t seen any human being up close except herself, she was awe-struck, she suffered, her pride was painful, sometimes light but almost always difficult to carry. How to end Joana’s story? If she could take the look she had caught on Lídia and add it: no one will love you . . . Yes, end like that: even though she was one of those creatures that are straggling and alone in the world, no one had ever thought to give Joana anything. Not love, they always gave her some other emotion. She lived her life, avid as a virgin—and would be to the
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