My ex and I had our first American experience that was utterly horrible. I had never been so sick, and neither did my ex.
We had both experienced a cold, even a bad one; the Flu was in a particular category of misery delivery.
I had my share of childhood illnesses, with chicken pox and mumps being the worst until I had the Flu. Interestingly, we don"t have the Flu in Brazil, despite living with "creative" water and sewer systems and drinking water from the faucet for our entire lives.
My parents had an apartment in the beach town of Guaruja, a beautiful vacation spot 90 minutes from São Paulo. The condo was technically beachfront since you could see a sliver of the beach between the buildings that lined up the actual waterfront.
The most important feature of the apartment was its locat
