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It would be necessary to listen to the conversations between the women and our own conversations — many of them silent — to create multiple contexts of reflection.

At the same time, the chat with time and with the literature broadened our vision and grounded us in the subject. With these readings we articulated concepts to better anchor the conversations that would be the basis of our work: the chat with the women.

Oh, it can come, middle age, it can come, it can come! Come closer, give me your hand, let me see your face... Oh... So this is how you look?... Oh, God help me... God help me...

Dorothy Parker

Unless we are afflicted by the syndrome portrayed in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Benjamin Button is born with the appearance of an old man and rejuvenates throughout his life, until he finishes it as a newborn), our destiny is to live in this time that stretches and contracts, as we gradually experience our end.

Between beginning and end, we live a true saga of indeterminations, the most dramatic of which is the absolute ignorance of the duration of life.