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Who is prophetess Dona Conceição? My name is Maria da Conceição Pereira Marques, I was born in Sabinópolis, Minas Gerais, at March 29th, 1951. My grandmother, I think was born in Portugal. She worked a lot with thread, she used to fabricate thread with the spindle, she threaded and sewed that thing from Portugal, she did everything by hand, and she used to make wine with fig leaves, made tobacco, planted tobacco seeds. She worked the tobacco herself; she harvested it, cured tobacco, made the roller and even the dust. Planted and picked cotton, worked the thread in the spindle and sewed. I met only my grandmother from my father's side, he had a great love for her, whenever we moved, first he would do her room and then ours. My mother did not know how to read or write; my father knew well reading and writing. I only knew my grandmother from my mother's side, but she did not live in Sabinópolis, but in Belo Horizonte, with the other children. My father would take care of everything, was very honest, a hardworking man. About children, we were seven girls and one boy, my mother would not let my father go to parties by himself, he would go with my mom, with the children. My father playing, people dancing and my mom breast-feeding the children, it was very funny, and I asleep here at her feet. I am the third from the younger ones. When we lived at the farm, I had to go to school. My mother did not work all the time, in those times it was not common for a woman to work, my mother would cook for the people that helped my father and there were a bunch of small children. My godfather was a judge, back at that time it was common to give the children to whom had more condition, for instance, if the father or mother is missing, the godfather or godmother would adopt, that had the better condition...