@gothic_porto on Instagram #porto #portugal I have been following Rui Pina for a few years now and love his eye for the streets and people of Porto. So it’s a joy to be able to curate and feature his work on a global storytelling page Elephant Gun Collective My first share is this wonderful image of Maria da Conceição.
TeixeiraMaria da Conceição Teixeira, 85 years old. Natural of Braga (Portugal). She came to Oporto at the age of five. Lives in st. Ildefonso, she never went to school but the school of life taught her everything.
"I climb 108 stairs every day to get in and out of the house, I live alone with God and the doves" She feeds the doves every day on the roof of her little castle. "I live in heaven," she says. Her husband committed suicide and years later found his son hanging by a rope at home. " I was a mother at 15 " She always Carries a photo of her husband and another photo of her taken in Faro on July 30, 1956!!! she was 18 years old.
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