[Daniel]  I waited patiently for the answer. Lara was thoughtfully looking at my face. She was on my lap. “What do you think is best?”“Go now to the church and get married.”Lara slapped me on the chest.“I'm serious!”“So am I.” “There's no way to go to the church now and do it.” “But we can go and set a date.”She l

[Daniel] The next day Lara woke up in a great mood. Even more so when I told her all the things we had to do. She was very excited. We went to the beach, which was in front of the hotel and Lara couldn't stop smiling. The water was clear blue and had fine sand. On the sand there were covered beds and coconut trees all around. “I knew this was paradise!”We put our things on one of the beds and I had to hold Lara to put on the sunscreen. She is worse than a child! We got into the water. The place was so perfect. I think everybody should get to know it. It is wonderful.

I was waiting for Lara to appear. She was standing with her arms crossed at the gate of one of the stables' paddocks. I don't know how she managed to convince me of this, but...Manuela was beside me and very excited about her crazy mother's idea. Minutes passed and Lara appeared with Teci. “Mom, wasn't that going to be my horse?”“Another day. For the first assembly you will go with me.” I breathed a little relieved. She's not that crazy. I thought she was going to put Manuela on the horse and let her ride alone...Lara climbed on Teci and asked me to put Manuela on. I put her in front of Lara.

After telling Daniel the news and seeing that he was excited, I relaxed. I wasn't planning to have any more children, but I went soft on the medication and now I have an extra little gift...“Are you going to prophesy sex again?” I asked debauched.We had just left Manuela in her room and went to ours. I was dead tired! Too many children...“This time I don't know. I didn't even imagine that we would have another child.”“Me neither” I said thoughtfully.“Didn't you like it?”“I didn't want another child, I won't lie, but since it came...” I shrugged my shoulders.

A few months passed after I started training. Now my father - finally - let me jump the highest ones, but he was all the time standing close and watching every wrong move I made. And no, they were not the highest hurdles. He said that it takes time and to stop being stubborn. This stubbornness irritated both of us. His stubbornness in persisting in the same place, when I was already able to go ahead, and mine in insisting to increase.In the end he would get angry and take me home.When I told my mother about this, she laughed at me and it also made me angry. Don't they understand that I am not five years old anymore?But there was also a good side to all this... Sometimes my father couldn't stay and left Murilo with me to watch me. In these moments I would jum