After spending a few hours sleeping at the bus station in Lagoa da Italianinha, Rita de Cássia, a forty-something with the mind of a child, went to a square where she sat with her doll, contemplating the sky, around 3 a.m. Suddenly, Rita began to speak to her doll:
"See, Dalila? This sky is so big... there's an all-powerful Father watching over us... and human beings don't like Him... because they do everything He doesn't want..."
Rita stopped speaking, and then continued:
"Wars, killings, famine, people go hungry, like me... corruption, theft, racism, xenophobia... all of this displeases the Father..."
Rita paused again, and then said:
"I think people talk so much about the end of the world, and it's near..."
Rita lay down and said to her doll:
"Say this out loud: 'I love you, Jesus!'"
From afar, hippie Malu had woken up because she'd gone to get a glass of water, and she saw Rita in the distance. Malu thought:
"Poor thing... talking to her doll...
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