Ricardo Araujo Pereira as he has never seen him before: crying because he missed his daughters who live outside Portugal – Nacional

Ricardo Araujo Pereira He doesn’t hide his anxiety about living far from his two daughters, he admitted for a moment He was in tears.

Ricardo and Maria Jose Arias’ eldest daughter, Rita, 19, moved to the UK last year. This year, it was the turn of the youngest, 18-year-old Maria Ines, to leave the country to study in the United States.

“It was always on the table that studying abroad was a possibility. I am very happy to be able to provide this possibility for them, because I think they would love it,” he began. “Generation 70” podcast with Bernardo Ferrao. The two studied at an elite school in the municipality of Cascais, where most classes were taught in English, and thus became bilingual.

But he described the distance as “terrible, useless and very boring.” “For example, the youngest one is now 18 years old and she is studying at a university in the middle of the United States, on another continent, and she is enjoying it so much that I consider it bad, because she has been there for a long time,” he admitted. “The other one is in England so it will be easier for him to come.”

“I have a podcast now, which is very interesting, called The Thing That Neither Builds Up nor Destroys. And one day they said, ‘I love listening to this, I put it on at night, all the lights off and I listen to this.’ Because it reminds me of the times I came to bed She read us the story before we went to sleep. I admit I was “drowning” in tears.“, he described emotionally.

When asked about the moments when he read stories to his daughters, Ricardo said: “Where can I intervene at home? In responsible matters, it must be done by an adult. Now, in things like reading the story there, I am very strong, I went there, I performed the voices of the wolf and the little pigs, and invented alternative endings. And the next day they said, “No, tell me yesterday’s story again, just as you told it yesterday.” These things, the things that ensure their survival, are done by an adult, not me, I take care of these things. I’m dealing with the clown. “I really miss him.” I confess.