The beautiful Latin hymns of my childhood are gone. The lilting Gaelic of my grandmother and her sisters is a fading memory. My wife was a grown woman before she discovered her grandmothers were Portuguese and Spanish. In New World Italian families daughters-in-law were expected to speak English and cook Italian (lucky for me).
I recognized a new contractors accent. You're from from Brazil. Why the subject of Portuguese came up I don't remember, but she asked if my family spoke it. Sorry, no, nobody here speaks Portuguese anymore.
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