He is from Leo and She is from Scorpio.

Chapter 55 - July 1975 - part 05

Amanda's POV

- My full name is Amanda Lins Bristley. I was born in São Paulo / Brazil, on November 16, 1952. My mother is Elis Lins, she is Brazilian and my father is Alex Bristley, he is British and was born here in London, he is director of EMI Music, already know. My parents met during World War II.

In 1944, when Brazilian troops, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and the Brazilian Air Force departed towards Italy, to fight with the allies at Montese and Monte Castelo against the Nazi troops, my mother had recently completed nursing school and Enlisted as a volunteer nurse to assist Brazilian soldiers wounded in Italy. My mother, with a group of volunteer nurses, was sent to the city of Monte Castelo, Italy, and they looked after many wounded Brazilian soldiers and also looked after wounded soldiers from the Allied base as US, French and British soldiers. It was then that my mother met my father, Alex. My father had finished the College of Administration and Economics in 1943 at the University of London and then was recruited as a soldier of the British Armed Forces. In combat he was injured in the leg and my mother was recruited to take care of my father. My mother took good care of my father. He feared that his leg would be amputated, but, as a great nurse, he did everything to prevent it from happening. My mother knew how to speak English, because she had taken an English course before, and my father and she began to talk a lot and became friends. When my father fully recovered, he returned to London, but before they changed phones and addresses and promised each other that they would keep in touch. My father said that he would be eternally grateful to my mother for having helped him.

In February 1945, at the end of the war, my mother returned to Brazil to São Paulo and began working in a large hospital as a nurse. My father and she continued to communicate by letters and phone calls. My father then, at the end of 1945, went to Brazil, behind my mother, saying that he was totally in love with her and asked if she wanted to be his girlfriend. Mother accepted, then, she was already in love. And after six months, dating from a distance, my father finally asked her to marry him. Mama then had to leave her life in Brazil and went to London with my father and got married. After the war, my father started to study Master of Communication and how he really enjoyed music, said that one day he would be a great businessman in the music world. Mom got a job as a nurse in a London hospital. They were very happy and in the year 1952, my mother became pregnant with me for their joy. Mom said she would like me to be born in Brazil, like her. So when she was already seven months pregnant she quit her job as a nurse and went back to São Paulo and stayed at my grandparents' house. My father remained in London and only went to Sao Paulo when my mother was about to give birth. I was born in São Paulo and according to my mother, my father and she stayed with me until January of 1953 and then we returned to London.

Until I was four, my mother and I lived in London and learned to speak Portuguese too, because she taught me. My parents' marriage went very well, but sometimes my father drank a little too much and once when he was drunk my mother caught him kissing another woman at work. Mom felt betrayed and my father said he did it because he was drunk, but he had never betrayed Mom before. But she, irreducible, asked for divorce, for my father's sadness. They divorced shortly afterwards, and she said that she was returning to Brazil and that she would take me, therefore, she had a right to justice. My father agreed, but he always said that he would visit me on vacation. I suffered a lot. I grew up and missed my father so much. But always twice a year he was going to visit me.

Mama returned to work in a large hospital in São Paulo as a standard nurse and I learned to speak English and Portuguese. As the years went by, my father became a great businessman in the music business, until he became one of the directors of EMI Music. I inherited from my father, my natural red hair and my mother's dark brown eyes. Meanwhile I spent my childhood and adolescence in São Paulo and made a great friendship with Cíntia. We did an English course together and became best friends.