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Daren´s parents

It´s worthy to get to know Daren´s parents better to understand Daren himself. Daren´s father was a good man. He was from a small village in the interior of Portugal. he was the firstborn of tow brothers. When he was six years old he started to work, as it was the use among the people in Portugal at that time. He started to work whit Daren´s grandfather, shepherding sheep and goats. Its was a hard job for a man to do, imagine for a six year old boy. He often had no shoes and many times would sleep above a creek white a stone as pillow. This last until he was twelve years old. At that he went to work in a restaurant in the town nearby. But the work wasn´t easier at all. long hours of work, often form 6 am to 12 pm. many time with no resting day. All his money he made he gave it to his parents. But being in the town, knowing other people, people with more secular education, with minds more open, made him also open more his mind. It´s worthy to say that Daren´s father was a clever m...

The child

When Daren* was 1 year old his father went to Switzerland to give a better life to his child and wife. One year later, his mother joined his father in Switzerland, leaving toddler Daren with his grandparents. It was an happy time. His grandparents lived in a small village in the interior of Portugal. A place where even toddlers could play in the street, and where all the neighbors know each other. His grandparents loved him very much and he loved them as well. He used to say to his grand mother: "my mother is not hear so, you are my mother". His parents missed him a lot. once his mother had a dream that he was dawning in the well his grandfather has in the back of the house. It was so real to her that she had to telephone to make sure he was well, and only after she heard him, she could relax.  A year passed by, summer came as well as his parents came in vacations. Daren was well treated with his grandparents but they missed him so much that they take him with them t...