ausência (absence)

“A presença nas cartas dissimula a ausência e possiblitia a convivência entre dois mundos, dois tempos, dois espaços e dois identidades.”

-Cláudia de Jesus Maia

The presence in the cards [written by the laborers for their families] hides their absence and enables them to live between two worlds, two times, two spaces, and two identities.