Heart of Ice
my mother lamented.
“Perfect wives for other men, not for my children. I hope you don't follow your mother's ideas and find a woman of principles and not someone as vain as those girls your mother admires so much,” my father said, looking steadily at my mother, cutting off any protest on her part. “Let's go, dear. You know I like to take advantage of my day off, and I have a lot of things to catch up with Gustavo,” Gustavo Alcântara was the father of my friends and my father's partner.