2021-12-04 18:23:00Harold returns home with the money from his unemployment insurance installment. Isabel is talking to Flávia while Reuben sleeps in the pushchair. The radio plays Gloria Estefan's "Anything for You" at a volume not loud enough to wake Reuben.
The ladies see the arrival of the owner of the house. Isabel gets up.
"Hi, my love! Did you make it?"
Harold takes his wallet out of his pocket and shakes it, "Yes, I got it! This month we'll still pay the bills."
Flávia is worried about this phrase, but hides it so as not to ruin the joy that reigns in the living room, "That's good, Harold."
"It was Raymond who answered me. I told him we didn't go to Tiago and Carmen's engagement dinner because Josias wasn't going to attend. He said Tiago was so angry that he threw his wineglass in his fury!"
Isabel shakes her head, "Too bad, but we weren't going to enter the same space as Pamela Reis."
Harold opens his wallet and hands all the mone
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