Clara looked at herself in the mirror once more, running her fingers over the small wrinkles that were beginning to appear on her face. At thirty-five, she was no longer the young woman she had once been, and every day her reflection reminded her of the passage of time. She had tried everything: creams, treatments, even injections that promised to rejuvenate her, but nothing restored her lost youth.
I went to Curitiba for work for five days and stayed at a hotel. On the second night, I answered my cell phone in the lobby and noticed a man sitting across from me kept staring at me. He must have been about 65 years old, had white hair, a thin goatee, and was about 5'7".
Rodrigo, at 42, led a life that, to any outsider, seemed the epitome of stability. Fifteen years of marriage to Solange, a woman who at 42 still turned heads wherever she went, a solid job as a financial manager, and a comfortable home in the suburbs.
Leo is a strong, hard-working young man who had never been sick before, but as no one is made of iron, he unfortunately caught a virus that left him feeling a little unwell.