This is most certainly the last photo of my grandmother Albina Rosa de Jesus - here with her second oldest daughter Dulce Roza Amorim some time in late 1983, at Dulce's garden on Rua Ignacio Pereira da Rocha, in Pinheiros, São Paulo. Albina would die a few weeks later on 5 March 1984.
Albina, Dulce, Celso & Sonia Tanganelli and Paulo Cesar (at his wheel-chair); on the front row are Gabriel's twin boys, Sergio & Ricardo plus an non-identified girl.
Avó Albina ahead in years, she'd only live one-and-a-half year after this shot. Her body language reveals to me she was living some place different than the one she as. She has that far-away look of someone seeing a ship far away at sea.
Today, 16 November 2023, I was thinking deeply about my Grandmother Albina... She didn't have a place of her own. Since my Granfather died in 1969, her house on Rua Mato Grosso, was 'dismantled' and she lived mostly at my aunt Antonia house in Baurú and sometimes she'd stay with Maria Rosa at the other side of Mato Grosso...but she had too many children, like 2 girls and 2 boys. I was wondering how comfortable she felt when moving from Antonia's, Maria Rosa's, Dulce's and in shorter stays at Yolanda's, Francisca's and Eunice's.
Albina was from a rural outfit. She had lots of brothers and sisters who mostly worked in coffee, cotton or sugar-cane plantations. The boys didn't manage to live too long mostly bogged down in alchoholism when adults. Anna actually outlived Albina; Maria Rosa & her husband got detached from the rest while still at a city junction at Luz Railway Station when migrating from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo and was never to be found... And Margarida died in her late 40s.
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