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I'm Adriana

Adriana loved to read, and learned a lot from what she read, unlike other children her age, she liked to watch the news, watch documentaries, and those habits made her a little wise.

Once again, she was proven that good habits bring good results, and it is not worth trying to console herself, saying that she has many children of rich people, who have the best education, who become thugs.

And this, it confuses even more, because better school, better house, better vacations, luxuries, are not just good conditions that are part of good habits.

So, we will say that good habits are doing good for yourself and for others, every day, whether you are poor or rich.

“Aunt Lili, you make such good cookies. - Adriana said.

“Thanks for appreciating, daughter.

— It is a pity that our street is not very busy, and cannot sell as much. - Said Lysandra.

— I can help, I can take them to school, and at break, I see my colleagues.

She was only eleven years old when she proposed to her next door neighbor a business, selling her cookies at school, and in return, he would give her fifty cents for each cookie and three more cookies for her. Adriana had already calculated everything, fifty cents per cookie, she would take fifty cookies, and earn twelve contos and at the end of the day, fifty meticais. In one month, two hundred and seventy-five contos. In a year, she would have saved three thousand three hundred meticais.

'Three muffins?' For you? - Asked Lysandra.

- Yes aunt.

- For what?

— For me to eat. The dumplings are so good, I can still be tempted to eat them.

'But you can buy it with the money you'll earn.'

— Taking money I'm going to earn, to buy what I'm selling? Ahhh, aunt...!!! So, at the end of the month, I won't have the value I calculated.

There was little Adriana giving a little wisdom lesson.

• How many people, do business, and either eat what they sell, wear what they sell, or peek at what they sell, don't count, and then don't understand how the business didn't work?

• How many people do business, and don't count what they earn, and spend everything they earn throughout the month, and then say that the business is not profitable?

• How many people do business and don't know how much they're going to earn, or even knowing, don't stay focused, then say it wasn't a good deal?

Lisandra couldn't handle Adriana's acceleration. She took a pen and paper, did the math, saw that she would lose some money on the deal, but not as much as she did, leaving half the cakes dry and spoiled. So, she accepted the girl's proposal.

— What are you going to do with the money? - Asked Lysandra.

— I have some ideas, Aunt, but I haven't decided yet. - Adriana said, with a smile on her face.

Adriana fought against her will, every day. In the first days, she ate the three cookies, then analyzed that if she didn't eat them, for them, she would earn more, because she sold them too. Some days she ate a cake or two, other days nothing at all, but she never took what she shouldn't, and she kept everything she earned very well.

"When Mom finds out you sell Aunt Lili's cookies at school, she's going to hit you right." - Cecilia said.

— Sis, please don't tell me anything! Please! - Adriana begged.

— I won't tell, but it's good to see how you're going to keep it, because Mom, sooner or later, will find out and it's going to fall on you. What did you say to Aunt Lili?

— I told her that Mama accepted that I help her.

— Liar!

— Sis, if I didn't say that, Aunt Lili wouldn't accept it.

— Girl, come to your senses, lying is ugly.

— Sorry, man! I swear I won't do it again.

- It's ok!

That year, Adriana dismissed the seventh grade, was applauded at school, because she was nominated best student, in the history of that school. For her colleagues, it was not deserved, because they said that Adriana was the teachers' darling.

“They gave her answers with teachers, because she has good handwriting and filled out assignments for them. - Said colleagues.

— Also, she does everything they tell her to do, carries books on time, arranges material for the teachers ...-Said others.

Adriana entered secondary school with both feet, with the best references. Helena, unfortunately, said that she didn't have money to buy a uniform for her, on the way out, she wore her sister's uniform, she had to adjust a little with a needle and thread, but for her, there was no problem, what really mattered was going to school .

— Chief of hygiene?! A *poorly dressed!* - Colleagues pumped her.

— Yes, I nominate her as head of hygiene. Because she is an organized girl, although she cannot afford it, she is quite clean. - Said the teacher responsible for the class.

It was her glow, even without pretty clothes, Adriana glowed, stood out, had something about her that captivated people.

“You needed to see how they looked at me with contempt. The worst thing is that I fell into a class of rich kids. - Adriana said.

— Rich class? - Lysandra laughed.

“Yes, in primary I was lucky to be in class three or four. Where there were older people. Now, I went to class one, then class one, auntie.

It wasn't a lie, in many schools, I don't know if they did it by choice or it was coincidence, but the first classes had more students well positioned, socially, and in the last classes, there were more students with less conditions, and older students.