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BSB 02/05/1987 Saturday The strike is still on and it’s been great. We got close to all the people in the area again and I fancy a boy, Gino. He lives on the same building as me, the one I got together with at Carnival. The average age here is 16. It’s a big group:…

BSB 13/04/1987 Monday Schools are still on strike and no lessons… I’m in a terrible phase. Arguing with my mother every minute, over little things. She said she can’t take it anymore and can’t stand me. I either see a doctor or I leave the house. I don’t know what it is, it’s like the…

BSB 31/03/1987 Tuesday It seems there’s going to be a teacher’s strike. There’s already a bankers and doctors strike… Everyone wanted a 100% pay rise. The ‘Plano Cruzado’ has already died and been buried and everything has gone up in price. Brazil asked for a moratorium and there are rumours of an ‘Economy of War’.…

BSB 15/03/1987 Sunday – Loló fall Yesterday was my Friday 13th, so much back luck. After my guitar lesson I went to Ana Claudia’s flat and we went to meet up with Faiga and Alessandra. We had arranged to sniff loló. We bought a bottle from the chemist and went to a block’s roof and…

BSB 06/03/1987 Friday – Carnival trouble I feel really cold because I have a 38c fever, a horrible headache. I woke up like this today and missed school. I only went to carnival on Tuesday. In the afternoon me, Renata, Gino, Junior, William and some other people from 405 went to AABB, everyone was getting…