Some smiles are hard to forget. Rudimar Perini's is one of them. 

With that smile, he always said a calm: “In life, everything works itself out.”

Rudi taught that for every problem there is a solution. There is no need to lose your temper. 

And he never did. Very few things irritated him, and even in those moments, he would soon find a way to strike up a conversation so that everything would quickly return to normal. 

Outgoing, lively and very sensitive, he cried at movies and at Zaffari commercials, unafraid to show what he was feeling. 

Rudi was good to everyone, even too much so, as the family describes it, which sometimes led him to be disappointed, because with this trait, he saw no ill will in anyone. 

His place of peace was at home, beside his wife, Maira. The two lived an enviable love story, of more than 40 years. Rudi bought flowers for Maira to decorate the house every week. And every year, they went on vacation, just the two of them, when they would spend a month traveling and ‘turn into teenagers’, as they used to say. The plan was to keep up these trips until they were 80, when they intended to settle down. 

Rudi paid attention to details. He always brought a gift for his daughters when he traveled, bought the favorite drink of each guest who came to his house and, when he grilled barbecue, made three kinds of meat to please each member of the family. 

He never minded making this extra effort for those he loved. To him, that was what love was. When his father-in-law became ill and could no longer leave the house to play quatrilho (a card game Rudi followed - and loved), he gathered all of his father-in-law's friends and brought them to his house, so the game could take place. 

Rudi started working early. As a child, he helped the family wrap straw around wine demijohns. In adult life, he became an entrepreneur. He worked in Caxias' nightlife for 40 years. He started with the Bate Bate bar, which went bankrupt, and taught him how not to run a business. Later, he had Churrascaria Perini together with his father, managed Taberna, Dom Vicente and, lastly, the famous Fogo de Chão, alongside his sister. To his two daughters, he taught by example that success has no shortcuts: it is only achieved through hard work. 

Rudi lived intensely. 

He loved intensely. 

His departure was sudden. There was still so much to do. Including becoming a grandfather, a role that would have suited him perfectly. 

What remains is the price of such an intense love: the longing. 

Text: Valquíria Vita, Legado Histórias de Vida 

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