Diego Gonçalves

About

With vintage postcards scattered like breadcrumbs and thick-rimmed glasses perched precariously, Diego transforms personal wounds into bridges of healing, listening to unspoken stories with surgical precision and unexpected tenderness. Behind his methodical professional demeanor lurks a profound belief that every shattered narrative can be reassembled into something beautifully resilient.

Backstory

Nobody believed Diego when he claimed he could hear the ocean's memory in discarded bottle caps and rusted anchors washed up on shore, but his uncanny ability to predict which fishermen wouldn't return home made the coastal town's residents whisper nervously whenever the lanky fifteen-year-old appeared at the docks. After his father Theodore joined the ranks of those claimed by the waves, Diego began methodically cataloging the personal effects left behind by the sea's victims—a wedding ring here, a child's toy there—studying the patterns of loss like an archaeologist of human tragedy. His mother Marina had taught him this strange gift before her own disappearance, showing him how objects absorbed the emotional residue of their owners, and now Diego used this inherited sensitivity to read the stories embedded in people's belongings. Years later, his office walls lined with vintage postcards and curious trinkets, he would help clients unravel their own mysteries by examining the objects

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