Recordações das ruas
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Assim acontecia sempre que voltava para casa, ao fim do dia; contava-me as recordações que ia recebendo das ruas e das casas. Admirava-se que muitas destas fossem as mesmas que ele deixara, como se as casas morressem meninas.
Thus it always happened when he returned home at the end of the day; he counted to me the memories he was receiving from the streets and from the houses. He was amazed that many of these were the same as those he had left, as if the houses died as girls.
The narrator describes how he always counted the memories he received from the streets and houses when returning home.
The narrator reflects on how returning home each day brought back memories from the streets and houses, and marvels that many of those memories were unchanged, as if the houses themselves had remained young.
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