THE GIRL OF THE SEA

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Original Author: Maria Luicia Amaral

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This abstract was translated from A Menina do Mar

Every day when the sun looked for to breach well to devagar and the beach were desert appeared Marcelo.Ele adored

to inside free pipe in this schedule and with the feet of the water. In this hour all of the city slept. One day it listened to a racket, turned and saw a girl leaving the sea. Very pretty and very stranger, had a star of silver in the head, clothes with some colors and many necklaces of shells and seaweed. Marcelo is looking at without believing so great beauty, freed the pipe and cried out: - Hippie of the sea Is one! The girl goes to its meeting, catches its hand and says: - AMOR.Ele nothing answers and follows the girl, who goes in direction to the city that still sleeps. It walks to its side, and feels as if he was floating equal to it. They arrive in the city, nobody, absolute silence. The girl takes off of the stock market a written glass Ink of Squid and starts to write in all the doors the word LOVE. The boy does not believe that if he can write with that ink and he tries to erase, but nothing he erases. It says that he must be a magical ink, and skirtes the letters of that word with the tip of the fingers. Marcelo starts to cry out in the way of the city: LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! After painting all the city, the girl comes back toward the way of the sea and Marcelo follows it, does not want to lose it. It says that IARA is called and it it asks for that it does not go even so, but its order flies with the breeze of the sea. The hair of Iara dance to the wind, the boy try to hold it, but it floating oes of meeting the great waves and one of the a has covered and adds the girl being under the water a great jellyfish. Sad it catches its pipe and returns for the city, goes listening to one cantiga soft that each time is more far until if erasing. Arriving in the city he sees that everything came back to the normal one, are waking up. Açougue opens the doors, the bell of the church touches, the florista arranges its flowers and of the pink one for the child who pulled the flower, the druggist opens the gate where many children enter and it of the fruits for all and plays with them. Epa! Something strange! Its I land on water the druggist had horror to the children, the fruits were acred and nobody entered in its yard. It notices that many people had moved, and for better. They had waked up different. E noticed that the word LOVE more was not written in the doors, had disappeared. The LOVE was now in the heart of each one.

Published: July 31, 2007

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