In memory of my parents,
Rogério Jacques de Moraes and Maria Léa Ferreira de Moraes.
In celebration of my sons, Roger Moraes Cardoso and Matthew Moraes Cardoso, for their courage to pursuit their own paths, which inspired me to pursue my own.

She believed in angels and, because she believed, they existed. (Lispector, 1986, p. 39)