Sculpture of "Ana Paula" (back)

Ana Paula Oliveira
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
40 years
Housewife

But, of all things, it is more difficult to deal with the pain of those who love me. I ask you not to be sad, because for now I'm here. My grandmother, who had stomach cancer, I think she died at diagnosis. I do not. I decided to live. I went for surgery, removed the ovaries, thinking it was going to be all right, and everything went wrong. In the middle of the procedures, when I noticed the nervousness in the room, I asked if someone could bring me a piece of watermelon. When everyone laughed, it did me good and I was fine. I see it as a trip, the good parts in the middle of the bad. How is life, by the way.