To reset my Brazilian tourist visa with the land borders closed, I flew to Santiago, never actually entered Chile, and got pulled into a police office on the way back.
Neither of us spoke the other's language when we met. What it was actually like to build a relationship through a translation app that sometimes reversed my meaning.
We met on a livestream app in 2019 with no shared language between us. The whole story: Brazil, Carnival 2020, COVID, a wedding streamed to Michigan, and eventually a fifth wheel.
