A hypothetical choice
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— Que é? Diga.— Se você tivesse de escolher entre mim e sua mãe, a quem é que escolhia?— Eu? Fez -me sinal que sim.— Eu escolhia... mas para que escolher? Mamãe não é capaz de me perguntar isso.— Pois sim, mas eu pergunto.
What is it? Say. If you had to choose between me and your mother, whom would you choose? I? She made me a sign that yes. I would choose... but why choose? Mom is not capable of asking me that. Well yes, but I ask.
The narrator is asked a difficult hypothetical question about choosing between his mother and his love interest.
The narrator is asked a hypothetical question about choosing between his mother and his love interest, and he hesitates, but she insists on an answer.
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