It was a cold August dawn, where people used to light a big fire to warm themselves from the cold, there on the Cajueiro farm in the municipality of Conceição da Feira in the state of Bahia. A very beautiful farm surrounded by fruit trees such as: Jaqueira, mango, avocado, lime orange trees, papaya and many other trees that covered the house surrounded by balconies and the beautiful garden where they grew beautiful roses and other flowers. There were also goats, sheep, pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, turkeys and many other animals. Mrs. Ana, who lived in the village with her husband José, was about to give birth and began to feel the pain of childbirth. Mr. José hurried to look for the midwife to assist his wife who was screaming in great pain. He went to a locality near the farm and the midwife was assisting another woman in labor, he knew where she was and went quickly to the place where he found her leaving because the other mother had already given birth to a beautiful boy. He took Mrs. Deolinda to his house, the midwife entered the room and prepared Ana to give birth to her third baby. In a few hours Mr. José, who was in the living room very distressed, heard the baby's loud cry. The midwife Deolinda came to the bedroom door and asked him to come in to see his baby who had just been born at that moment. She took the little girl in the palm of her hand and said: _Congratulations daddy, hold your princess. He took her in his arms very excited and said: _She is beautiful! _I was expecting a boy, but another girl was born, God's will be done. _I will love her and help her to be a great woman and bring much joy to the whole family. At dawn, the whole neighborhood came to visit the woman who was giving birth and to present the baby. At that time, it was customary to give gifts to children when they were born because the famous baby shower was not yet done. Mr. José went to the city to register the girl at the registry office, she had been born at two o'clock in the morning. The name of the day was consulted and found in the almanac, which was a book where people consulted the names and was placed the name that was found that day regardless of whether it was ugly or beautiful. The name (Virginia) was found for that day. She was successfully registered at the city registry office, when she got home with the registration ready, she was presented to her mother who loved the name and said that it was a very beautiful name for her daughter. Although she found it a very strong name, but she was sure that her daughter would live up to her name and be strong to break the barriers of life. Time went by and the girl grew up and became robust and very beautiful. She was a child of black color, curly black hair, dark brown eyes, very beautiful as a moonless night. She learned everything that Mama Ana taught her, she is the third daughter of the couple because they are trying to have a male child. It is Papa José's dream to have a boy to run the farm when he is old and cannot work, this farm is reputable and passes from father to son and until today he has not been able to realize the dream of having his heir. After Virginia's birth, they have already lost hope of having a boy and decided that they will keep the three girls and whatever God wants. Mom already has Roberta who is the oldest, Sara who is the second and Virginia who will certainly be the youngest of the family. Virginia, at the age of three, could already read and write her name because she always watched her older sisters doing their homework and learned. Her parents were amazed at the girl's performance and always commented on it. They were simple farmers and had many financial difficulties, but they never let their daughters and especially Virginia lack anything. They worked in the fields during the day, but when it was dark there was still time to play, tell beautiful stories of fairies and even werewolves, teach them to sing and pray before going to sleep. Papa José played the cavaquinho, guitar, viola, violin or any other stringed instrument he built with his own hands. He was an admirable gentleman, Mom always said that Virginia would be smart like her father. Mrs. Ana and Mr. José did not have much knowledge in the pedagogical area, but they knew the importance of knowledge and always encouraged their daughters to study, they could only change their lives through studies. They did not want their daughters to go through financial difficulties, as they did on the farm. They wanted a better life for them, and for that to happen they would have to study hard. Virginia was always very studious, although she was very shy she loved to write beautiful essays. He won over his friends at school, did his classmates' writing assignments and managed to earn some money by buying their lunches. At that time there were no school meals, the students took what they had at home from their own fields. It was a very difficult life, Mama Ana bought a pencil and divided it into three parts. A piece for Roberta, another for Sara and Virginia. Books were not donated to schools, but Mama only bought the Portuguese book, which was for reading and interpreting texts, and the math book. Sara and Roberta were in the same grade and were enrolled at opposite times so that one could use the other's book, even the uniforms were shared. One had to wait for the other to come home from school to put on her uniform. They couldn't be late coming home from school because they had a serious commitment, someone was at home anxiously waiting for the uniform and books to go to school in the afternoon. It was a very difficult life, but this did not intimidate Virginia who advanced every day more in her studies and showed herself very strong despite seeing so many financial difficulties of her parents. After completing the fifth grade, Virginia would have to study in the city, but how if her parents were poor? In the city there was only one private gymnasium and there was still a big problem, the student was subjected to a test that was called the admission test, sometimes the poor passed, but the vacancies were donated to people of higher financial conditions and the child of the poor was left behind, passing the test or not. The tuition was very expensive and did not fit into their budget, because it was Virginia and her sister Roberta who were going to the gymnasium that year. Knowing the difficulties of getting a place, Ana decided to talk to her cousin sister who lived in Feira de Santana and ask for help.

She wanted to rent a small house so that her daughters could stay during the week to study, she knew that the expense would be heavy, but it was easier because the school was free. Although she had to pay for the bus to and from school, it was still cheaper than paying for the gymnasium for two daughters in the city where they lived. Mom's cousin, Ana, took up the cause and managed to rent a house near where she lived. Adopting the girls in that place, as if they were his daughters. Virginia and her sister Roberta were enrolled at the Edith Mendes da Gama e Abreu Municipal School. Virginia studied in the afternoon and Roberta in the evening. It was a free municipal gymnasium, where they taught well. The following year, Roberta decided to transfer to the Joselito Amorim Municipal College in the same city in Feira de Santana. During the time we were living in the big city, Roberta managed to get a job in a supermarket, but the financial difficulties were still too great. Virginia was still a fourteen-year-old teenager, but she got a job in a sculpture factory where she worked with paintings. She loved to paint, and because she did a good job her boss chose her to draw the features of the pictures and she could earn a little more. Because Virginia was underage, she had to stay in a back room with the underage girls who worked there. He knew he couldn't admit minors, but he did it on the sly. One day he was denounced and what was sweet was over, Virginia lost her job and was very sad, because that money she managed to earn was used to pay the tickets at the weekend to go to the farm to see her parents and get food for the week. Everything was going very well, but Mama Ana ended up getting very sick and everything became very difficult, it was not possible for her to continue paying for the house in Feira de Santana. Mom Ana gave up the house due to lack of resources, Roberta was working and could support herself, she had a free pass that a councilor got for them and that helped a lot. Although Virginia had a lot of inconvenience, she was ridiculed by her colleagues every time she got on the bus and presented her free pass. They called her poor and starving, who needed a free pass to go to school. Virginia cried a lot and sometimes preferred to walk almost a kilometer to go to the gymnasium, so as not to go through that vexation that was already certain every day. She knew she was poor, but it was humiliating to see all her classmates who went to the same school act like that, she would get on the bus and sit down, lower her head and cry and they wouldn't stop. At that time no one punished those who practiced bullying, and it was torture for those who suffered from it. Virginia, being a teenager and not having a steady job, had to return to the farm in the city of Conceição da Feira. She was very sad, but there was no other way because her parents could not afford to keep her in the big city paying for a house to rent. After she returned to the farm, her mother enrolled her in the city gymnasium, now it was no longer necessary to pay or take a test to get a place, but it was still private. Virginia was enrolled and continued her studies, although she had to walk two kilometers every day. At the time there was no school or private transportation, the transportation was her legs, but she faced studying and making an effort. The following year she transferred to another school in the neighboring city, to this city she had transportation to take and bring from the school that was paid, but everything seemed to improve for Virginia. She was still in the eighth grade, but a vacancy arose to teach in a small school in the countryside and a friend of Ana's knowing that her daughter was studying and had desires to become a teacher, brought it to Ana's attention. The mother said that the girl was still a minor, at the time she was fifteen years old. Because there were no trained teachers at that time who wanted to teach in the rural schools, she was tested at the town hall and passed. Virginia won the place in the school, now it was a lot of responsibility in the hands of a girl. She did not back down, she continued studying and taking courses and striving to do a good job that was highly praised by the children's parents. She continued teaching and studying and managed to graduate in magisterium, which at the time was to work as a teacher. At her graduation there was a very beautiful and organized party, her mother gave her a graduation ring and a very small and very beautiful Oriento watch. Virginia was delighted, she had never had such a beautiful watch! After graduating in teaching, she was transferred from the school to work in a nursery school earning two salaries and there began a new expectation in Virginia's life. Working, she could now think about taking the pedagogy course and graduating from a college. In the following year, she started to study in Feira de Santana and with great difficulty she got her degree and continued working in schools in the municipality for ten years. During this time, she met a boy who went to visit her mother who lived where Virginia worked, they became friends and she had no intention of being his girlfriend, but fate traced this meeting and although she did not have so much passion for the boy accepted to date him and said it was just to pass time. He lived in Salvador and they only saw each other every month or two weeks, but she didn't mind because she trusted Saulo so much. He seemed to be a very serious and faithful boy, and he never gave Virginia any reason to distrust him. She said that Saulo was free, even though he was dating, but she would not rush into marriage. If he went and didn't come back, because it wasn't meant to be hers, and she had total conviction of what she was doing. Saulo once said that she didn't seem to like him because she saw no emotion when he came. Virginia did like him, but she always knew how to be calm, although she felt a little jealous she never showed it to anyone. She was always a reserved and shy girl, but she always had her pride and spoke with conviction that she would only be any man's after she married him. She knew many girls who were deluded when they asked for proof of love, gave themselves sexually and they maliciously took advantage of them by deflowering them. Then they would run away, leaving even with children in their arms helpless. The fathers of that time were soulless and threw their daughters out of the house leaving them to live their lives suffering in the world.

Virginia was afraid of this happening to her and could not see herself thrown helplessly into the world without the warmth and love of her parents. They could not rely on their mother, because what their parents said was law and they could not do anything for fear of being thrown out of the house too. Virginia had already been dating Saulo for three years, and on one of his visits to visit her he told her that he intended to make it official by getting engaged. He spoke to Virginia's parents and the engagement was scheduled for the following month, on that day of the engagement there was a wedding tea where they won many gifts and she was already ready if by chance he asked her to marry him, she always bought things and was forming her trousseau. After two years, Saulo told Virginia's parents that he wanted to get married and the date was set. Mr. Joseph very worried called his daughter and said he could not afford to make his wedding party, but Virginia said: ''Daddy, don't worry, I know you are building the new house in town and you can't afford it at the moment, but you will have a party yes and nobody needs to know that I made my wedding party myself.'' He said that at the moment he could not afford to buy the bedroom furniture because he was short of provisions. Virginia asked Mr. José to enter his room and showed him all his trousseau that he had been buying for a long time and preparing for the moment. He was very pleased and thanked his daughter for her understanding. Virginia hugged him and told him that the bedroom furniture she was going to buy in Salvador because her fiancé already had a house there. In fact, Mr. José's wish was for Virginia to build her house on the city land because she was the only daughter who helped him pay for the land for the new house, but Saulo did not want to because he worked there and how was he going to have a wife so far away? Virginia was also reluctant not to quit her job and move with Saul to another city. She would have to resign and she knew that she would not receive her working hours because she was the one who was resigning, she went to the mayor and he told her that she could resign, that he would guarantee to pay her working hours. She believed him and resigned after the wedding which was very beautiful and held in the Assembly of God church. The wedding was held on a Saturday, on Sunday there was still a very nice lunch at Virginia's parents' house. On Monday she traveled to Salvador with Saulo, where they had their honeymoon and could touch each other as husband and wife. Finally, Virginia managed to fulfill her great dream of marrying a virgin. Now living in another city she only thought about getting a job, started to put her resumes in various places and was awarded a vacancy in a pharmacy. She took the test and was approved, after two months married and living in Salvador she was already working as a cashier. Virginia was still very happy with her performance and in a few days she was already working at the counter. Sometimes when a clerk was missing and Virginia was off she was called in to fill in and she earned very well, still receiving her salary from her old job at the municipality in her town. When she turned six months old, Virginia was cut from the payroll and when she went to fight back to get the money from her old job they said she was not entitled because she was the one who resigned. Virginia felt betrayed by the mayor and looked for a good lawyer and put the case in the hands of justice and continued working as a pharmacy cashier. There was the first hearing and Virginia won, but everything remained the same for many years she even thought that everything was lost and everyone who knew about the case was discouraged saying that the municipality always rolled up and never paid and Virginia gave that case as lost. She continued to work and avoided having children because she wanted to establish herself in her job and prepare the place so that when she became pregnant she could give them a decent life. After three years that she had married Saulo, she continued working and working hard to finish fixing up the house where they lived. She decided to get pregnant with her firstborn, the couple was very happy when Virginia took the pregnancy test and the result was positive. It was a very nice pregnancy period, she gained weight and always in front of the mirror she found the most beautiful thing to see her belly that grew day after day. At that time she started buying the baby's trousseau, not knowing what the sex was, she bought different colors until she took the test to find out the sex. On the day of the exam she was restless because she wanted to know the sex and as she always liked girls she hoped it would be female, but when she was lying on the stretcher in the doctor's room she asked if Virginia had a preference for the sex of the child and she replied: ''Whatever God sends I accept and I will take very good care of it, giving affection, attention and lots of love.'' She said: ''It's a big boy mommy!'' She was very excited and cried with joy, now happiness would be complete in her home, because a boy was coming to brighten up the house that until then was very empty. The routine during the week was work, and on Sundays when she was off she went to church. But Virginia thought it was wonderful, now she was a pregnant lady. She bought several cuts of fabric to make new clothes, she could not continue to squeeze her baby. The seamstress made two jumpsuits and a beautiful baby blue silk dress with very delicate white flowers, when she wore it she always contemplated her beauty in front of the mirror and saw that her belly was beautiful and getting bigger and bigger. Saulo had no children, it was the first and he was in love when his son moved in mommy's belly, it was surreal because she also loved it when daddy caressed and kissed her belly telling the baby that he loved him. It was nine months of pure love, even at work Virginia was pampered by the manager who never had children and felt like a mommy through her pregnancy. Unbeknownst to her, the pharmacy manager held a baby shower with other employees and on the day Virginia went on leave, Mrs. Judite came to the cashier and said: ''Virginia, before you leave Go to the application room I want to talk to you.'' She replied: ''Yes, Mrs. Judite, I am finishing the cashier and I will come and see you.'' Virginia was worried and thought it was some problem, she wondered: ''My God, what happened today, the day I'm going on leave?'' I swear I'm worried! After she had tidied up, she decided to go to Mrs. Judite's room. She knocked on the door and said it was Virginia, and she told her to go in. When she entered the room, everything was laid out on a table and she spoke like this: