We are listening to Love is the Answer here in Assis, Brazil. For my partner Fernando, Barbra Streisand is someone whom he loves so much and to whose records he rushes to listen in every important moments of his life (he has ALL of your records - not a single one is missing! Oh, also the biographies!). We are both professors of Sao Paulo State University (me of Linguistics, Fernando of Psychology and Psychoanalysis), and now we went to the US from September 22 to October 3 (me, to work, Fernando took two weeks off to come with me). For the second time in his life, Fernando was going to the country of his Barbra Streisand and registered himself in the sorting to get a ticket to see the lauching of Love is the Answer. Two days before the show, he started accessing the internet from the States, to see if he had won "the ticket". Of course, it did not come and he bought Love is the Answer.

I think my partner will faint if, one day, he sees one of your shows. I find it so amazingly beautiful to love an artist like he does, and I also find amazing and touching to be able to enchant a person's soul with your art the way you do with Fernando. Your are listend in several different moments: when he is happy, when he is tormented by decisions, when he succeed in doing something, when he is depressed - there is always Barbra Streisand's voice.

Thank you for existing and giving Fernando (and us) your marvelous art.

João Telles
Sao Paulo State University at Assis - www.assis.unesp.br
Fernando's home page at the university: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4799846A2