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Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs my father's five decades driving Brazil's Roads By Jose Enrique Bortolusi Remember, your dad helped build this airport so you could fly.
I hear my father's words every time I catch a flight from so Paulo's main airport, and while I always remembered those words, it has taken me some time to truly understand them.
Before he retired, he was a truck driver.
When I was a child, he would visit home and then before long he would leave again.
He always came with his truck.
They were a duo, almost a single entity, both too much and not enough, imposing and ephemeral.
As a boy, I always wanted them to stay, wanted them to go, wanted to go with them.
He said these exact words when we were on our way to that airport in 2009, the day I left to do my PhD in sociology in the United States.
During the months I spent preparing for the move, I showed him the state of Michigan several times on the map.
We calculated the distance between our home city, Jaou, and Ann Arbor in Michigan, where I would live for the next six years.
My father doesn't understand the world of universities, is unfamiliar with its nomenclature and rituals.