I lived all my life in southern Brazil, in a state called Rio Grande do Sul, where we do not have the weather and the landscapes a foreigner normally knows about our country. It is a place where the beaches are ugly, the sea water is brown and cold, and, in the winter, we frequently have 32-degree temperatures.
I became a Ravens fan in the early 2000s. I was a college student of literature, which included studying North American literature and Edgar Allan Poe, who became one of my favorite American authors. I read a lot of Poe's tales and poems, and, of course, “The Raven” was one of them.