Leticia: I remember writing letters to my father.
Ze: I think you were about ten years old when you wrote to me. You didn’t know how to write well until you were ten.
Ze Jr: I never wrote to my father, it was always mom who wrote. I would tell her to write that I missed him.
Ze: But you also told me to send you things you wanted.
Ze Jr: Yes, guess I asked for toys...

Ibitiuva 11/05/92
Hello my dear wife. Hugs from me. In the first place I hope that all is good for you. Things are good for him. Look I would like to say that you are not writing to me and that I am worried. I am sending 25.000,00 for you.
Because here we are making very little and for today this is all. I am having very bad thoughts.
I end tis card with a strong hug for you and the children. Say hello to all those who ask about me.
Jose Maria
Manuel sends best regards for you and the children.

Look Jose, I didn’t go see a doctor. And I am feeling a loss of vision. This burning in my eyes is too much. I doesn't stop. I know what I need to do, but for me, to go see a doctor is really difficult because I need to stay in the city for one week and I cant because of the children don’t have anyone else to stay with them. You mother is only caring for your father and doesn’t even want to know about the children, nor your sister’s children....

Mariana

Corego Fundo
Longings
Hi Father how are you. All is good with me thank goodness. Only it can’t be better because I miss you a lot.
Look father, I am good thank god and I am in the fifth grade and there but there are days when the car doesn’t come.
Look daddy, I ask you sir, to please send me a box of chocolates and sweets for mom that she asked me to ask you for. And sir, you haven’t yet sent them to her.
Hello Aunt
Can you read this card to my father. Ok.
Leticia, Euler and Warley
Send a prayer and mom sends a hug, ok dad.
Leticia Pamalho Gomes
Jose maria Glves Gomes

Wilson Sith His Children, Victor, Julie, and Brenda. March 2007.

"Julie, you are the most beautiful thing that your father has. And Victor. Come here Victor. Your dad loves you. Brenda, you too. I love you all very much."

Roberto With His Son, Pablo. March 2007.
"I love him so much. He is everything that I have. I miss him and I sense his absence when I go away. I think of him every day."



Preta, Vilmar With Their Children, Signaldo Seaiza, and Daniel. Their Other Three Children, Jefferson, Maraiza, and Robson, Perfered To Be Excluded From the Picture. March 2007.
"I am going away on the 28th, yes I leave on the 28th. I will miss my children very much. God will watch over them and God will watch over me as I go."




Ronaldo With His Four Children. March, 2007.
Ronaldo: Oh, Carol, Your father is going away on the 8th of next month. Will you miss your father?
Carol: I will.
Ronaldo: Dad needs to go so that I can buy food, sandals, clothes, apples. Do you like apples?
Carol: I do…I promise I won’t say bad words!
Ronaldo: That’s right, you won’t say bad words, only good things! And will you obey your mother when your father is away?
Carol: Yes.



Roberto, Grafina and Their Children, Gazaro and Adriano. March 2007.
“I love my children. I love them very much. I pray to god and the Virgin Mary to look after my family.”



Fernando and His Daughter, Laura. Junia, Laura's Mother, In Shadows. March 2007.
“Laura, I am going away but I will miss you very much. Laura, understand that father loves you.”



Fransisco and Maria José with Two of Their Children, Felipe and Kivia. Erick, Their oldest Son Was At School. March 2007.
“I don’t know what to say.”



Monica and Jueniere With Their Daughter Keurig. March 2007.
“Oh, Keurig, where is your mother? Keu, where is she? Are you being shy? I love you baby. Send a kiss to your daddy.”




Sergio With His Daughters. March 2007.
"I hope that my children are always in good health. I love them very much."




Angela and Dirceu With Their Son João. March 2007.
"João, do you miss your dad?…You need to be strong. Sing a song for me…What are you going to eat for lunch today?"



Renato, Viviane and One of Their Daughters, Renata. Vitoria Was Too Shy That Day. March 2007.
“Oh Renata, Will you miss me when I go away? Will you? …Your father will really miss you too. And when your father returns you’ll be walking and you will walk out onto the road to greet me…”



Sinval and His Son, Marco Antonio. March 2007.
"Marco Antonio, this is dad. I love you Ma! I miss you so much! Ok, my son. Sending you a big kiss. Bye."

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Adilson Holding His Daughter, Anne. March, 2007
“Daughter, I am going away. I love you. I want you to have good health and peace. When I arrive I hope that you are walking already.”



Eduardo With His Daughters, Fernanda, Caroline, Karalãini. March 2007.

“I leave here to work because here, life isn’t easy…. I am away for 8 months. And the children; there are times when I don’t see them growing up…I am always worried living so far away from my family. But what can I do? This place doesn’t give us opportunity. [o lugar não ajuda] Here I work on the farm, but the farm doesn’t give a future to anyone. I like my family a lot, so I always want to be at their side. Anything that they need I am here for them, but we don’t have the money for me to always physically be here. So I need to live both here and there until I save enough money so that I don’t have to leave anymore…until then, it is the life of here and there. I go to São Paulo, the sugar plantations…I send all the money to my family. So, when I return, I come with the money we made to buy things for them. And so I arrive, rest about 15 days, and begin the struggle on the farmland here. When April arrives I pack my things and head for the sugar plantations again. When I am in bed, sometimes I start to cry of longing for them…There are times when I receive news that they are not well and I get really worried. But I can’t come and visit because I lose the little that I earn on the travel costs. I need all that I earn to buy clothes, school supplies, and all the things that they need. I am not able to give them everything they ask for, but I give whatever I can. And it is not easy to work like this and to care for my family and live far away. Everyone knows this. Dear family, I want to say that you should be certain in the bottom of your hearts that I love you, and even when I am far from you, you are always in the bottom of my heart.”