Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father's five decades driving Brazil's roads | Long read

"Words are roads. They're what we use to connect the dots between the present and a past we no longer have access to."

"He does understand distances. Eight thousand kilometres separate the two cities. This number failed to impress him. He had covered hundreds of times that distance over five decades as a truck driver."

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