“The people in the south treat the northeast as a subrace of Brazilians,” said Roberto Quiñiero, who owns a small food market in Pedreiras.

Kids disappear into imaginary relationships all the time . . . but usually there's a limit to how far that imaginary relationship can go, because it's all in their head.

They grow in springtime on the bottom part of the winetrees and has to be cut in order to get better quality and quantity of wine.

Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.