Rio de Janeiro

“God places the solitary in families,” comforting words from the Bible... families, by blood, by obligation, by necessity, by desire... and sometimes, if one is very lucky, by love. [...] the echoes never leaving one’s heart, the memories carved like painted ivory, from a single tusk, delicately colored in brilliant hues, and softer ones, faded sometimes, so dim as to be almost forgotten… and yet never to be totally forgotten or left behind. The place one begins, and hopes to end…

Danielle Steel, in Family Album