Vintage Dalton Trevisan from beginning to end. It all starts when Maria calls Fabinho but has the wrong number - she's called João .
João asks her not to hang up. Maria doesn’t – they strike up a relationship. Before hanging up João asks Maria to call back again. He knows he likes her and would like their relationship to continue.
Maria calls back. João is elated. He tells Maria he has to meet her. Maria initially refuses by eventually gives in.
João stands at the street corner for an hour. Maria doesn’t show up but she calls him to say she drove by in a car so she could see him but was too scared to let him see her.
And so it continues, week after week, month after month. Poor João is driven nuts – he absolutely must meet his Maria. One of my favorite bits:
“When Maria said that from her window she was looking at the trees in a small square, night after night he devoted himself to making the rounds of all the squares. Under each lighted window he stopped and spied, and the best he got for his trouble was being questioned by the night watchman.”
A Dalton Trevisan six-pager too good to be true.
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