This is another piece I want to dedicate to my maternal grandmother (Anita Quevedo Ribeiro). I'd say my grandmother was a real audio book. It was very natural for her to tell stories that she experienced or heard in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul with wealth of detail. Spanish and German immigration in the 19th century was very present in the southern states of Brazil. My grandmother greatly appreciated the fandango, the flamenco, the tap dance and the castanets due to its genetic heritage. This piece tells a typical story of the 19th and early 20th century. Young women who lived in the middle of nowhere, lived teenage crushes with boys who left for the big cities of the southeast of the country as troopers and merchants. It was not known if and when they would return. In the 19th century these troopers had an important part in commercializing goods along the many roads through the country, and were consequently also responsible for spreading particular aspects of their culture to other regions. The piece describes a full day of passionate farewell of a couple, from the perspective of the girl who will be waiting for the boy to return from his journey, and it is divided between rhythmic themes and melodic themes, as follows: (https://youtu.be/_UfR71uDxm4) (00:00) Introduction (00:15) Rhythmic theme (01:05) Passionate and touching melodic theme: "I'm going to miss you" (02:07) Bridge to frantic rhythmic theme (02:22) Rhythmic theme a la Flamenco: "intense passion" (02:51) Recitative moment: “Please don’t go. I love you” (03:18) Initial rhythmic theme: "packing bags" (04:28) Coda: The farewell "waving scarves”