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1955

• The diary opens on Vera's birthday.

• Carolina picks up trash and sells what she finds for money.

• One night she goes to the Sao Paulo football stadium to look for paper.
• Carolina talks with her neighbors about politics.

• Carolina wakes up feeling ill.

• Jose Carlos, Joao, and Vera are assaulted by women in the favela.
• Carolina laments about the rampant abuse of alcohol in the favela.

• Carolina cleans her shack on July 19th.

• Carolina wakes up happy and sings on July 25th.
• Carolina wakes up early to fetch water.

• A teeter-totter is commissioned for Carolina's children.

• Ireno makes the toy for 16 cruzeiros.
• Sehnor Ireno tells Carolina about the recent robberies.

• Carolina goes out at night to look for paper.

• Sehnor Gino asks Carolina to go to his shack. She tells him no.
• Someone burns five sacks of Carolina's paper.

• Carolina suspects Dona Elvira's granddaughter of doing the deed...

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