biography
Moving back to Brazil for a promotion with his company, Marcelo de Soares Aganzo thought he would be there a year or two then be moved to a European branch of his company. While he had no plans to put down roots, meeting Sônia Moura Barata, a transplant from Portugal, he found himself not minding too much if he stayed in São Paulo. They were married within a year and expecting their first child, a little girl, shortly thereafter. Within two years of meeting the couple had a bouncing baby girl, Isabella, and another child on the way. By the time Lucas made his debut in late fall of 1985 the couple had resigned themselves to staying in Brazil indefinitely. Lucas was six when his parents began to have marital problems and eight when they were moved to Lisbon, Portugal; a joint decision in his father’s career and to be closer to his mother’s family.
As a young boy in São Paulo, Lucas’s father enrolled him in a small youth football league, something all little Brazilian boys did. After moving to Lisbon, his parents reenrolled him, sure their son wanted to play the sport. Luc wasn’t one to complain often, and though he had no real passion for the sport, he was good enough at it to start on his youth teams and get lots of praise from the coaches. The situation at home improved slightly for the first two years of the move to Portugal but began to decline rapidly; the summer before his fourteenth birthday his parents decided to divorce telling their children that it was best, due to their father having to relocate back to the United States and their mother wishing to stay in Portugal. Though neither wanted to be separated from either parent, it was decided that they would return to Portugal with their mother, due to their father’s occupational need to travel.
For his fourteenth birthday, he was gifted a camera and he finally found a passion that truly spoke to him. He began taking pictures of everything he could find. For the first time he felt like life made sense. He rarely saw his father due to schooling and his father’s work schedule. He found he preferred to be a spectator at a football match than to be one of the eleven on the pitch and learned that through the lens of the camera he could see the world for what it was.
Though he spent summer holidays in Chicago, where his father had been relocated, he had no real plans to move to the United States. His father often asked him what he planned to do with his life and he never really had a plan. His father had hoped his son would flourish in football, as the boy had pure talent but when he stopped playing completely at fourteen his father’s dream was lost. Luc played with the idea of going into photography, as he had such a love for taking pictures of anything and everything. He was sixteen when he decided what he wanted to do with his life. Though, Portuguese and Brazilian, most of his childhood was spent supporting the Brazilian national football team. It was through them that he started following the career of Ronaldo and his injuries that eventually led him to the career he’s chosen. He watched the player for years as he played for Brazil and each of his knee injuries that were rumored to kill his career. But each time the player came through and continued to play the sport, Luc was enthralled, not with the player but those that cured him. He decided he wanted to be a doctor; he wanted to be the one fixing someone like Ronaldo.
Initially he moved to Chicago to live with his father before he turned seventeen, planning to attend another year of high school as was required in the United States, but as he’d officially graduated in Portugal he wasn’t allowed to enroll. As such, he was told he could sit for his SAT and ACT tests and attempt to enroll in University at seventeen if his father would sign for him to do so. He had always been a spectacular student and his scores on his final exams in school proved as much. He spent three months in classes for the SAT exams and scored high enough to enroll at Northeastern University into their pre-med program. He knew he had many years ahead of him for schooling, but also knew he didn’t want to be forty by the time he was a real doctor. He went to class each semester with a full course load along with each summer term was accounted for. He graduated semester early, once more with stellar marks and he used his next few months to study for the MCAT. While he knew money wasn’t a problem for school, he knew his scores would determine where he’d attend. If his father had a say it would be Harvard, John’s Hopkins or Yale. He wasn’t nearly as hung up on the name of the school; he just wanted a good education and the ability to go into sports medicine. He wanted to be a surgeon, one who worked with top athletes. Through months of studying, tutors and no life, Luc managed to get a good enough score to attend Columbia University for medical school.
Medical school wasn’t what he thought it would be. At least not on a personal level. He barely dated through his undergraduate studies and his first year of medical school was no different. However, in his second year he met a girl that he thought was perfect. She was majoring in dance, and their personalities just worked together. She was light and airy, where he was stern and bullheaded. She wanted to enjoy life while he wanted to pass his classes and be done in four years. He found away to balance Haylie and school and to this day he’s not really sure how he managed. He kept his grades up and she even sat up nights with him, studying with him and quizzing him. He was in his second to last year of medical school when she turned up pregnant. To say he reacted poorly was an understatement. Though he didn’t want a baby right then, he was too Catholic to suggest she get rid of it. Instead, he suggested adoption. He pushed for it strongly and rarely went with her to doctor’s appointments during her pregnancy. It wasn’t until Haylie had their daughter and he held the tiny being for the first time, which he actually felt like he wanted her in his life, even if it was going to be difficult. He had only a semester left when Annabel came into his life and residency to look forward to. He was terrified that he’d put all that time into being a doctor only to not be able to go any further. Haylie understood and broke up with him. At the time he didn’t understand her motives he was scared he’d never see his daughter again and swore he wouldn’t leave New York, even when his orthopedic residency in Rhode Island came up. After promises of visitation, promises of him driving down to New York and her driving up to Rhode Island, he made the decision to move and join Brown University for their orthopedic residency program.
After a year of general surgery, Luc is starting his second year of orthopedic residency. While he knows he still has three years of residency before he can even obtain a fellowship in sports medicine he is excited to be a real doctor. He’s no longer the baby resident who is fresh out of medical school, but someone the first years actually asked questions of. Though he knows very little and swears that maybe when he gets to year five he will have knowledge, he loves everything he’s learned so far. Though, because he doing his residency through a medical school and could choose to be on the school’s calendar he prefers to be on a traditional twelve month rotation, thus giving him actual vacation time and the ability to see his daughter more regularly than only in the summer months. He regrets that he did not stay in New York and push harder for a residency there, he hates that he only sees his daughter every so often when he has the time off or his ex decides to come and visit. Surprisingly they have managed to stay on friendly terms.
He rarely leaves Rhode Island and spends his free time working as a photographer to extra money. Though his rent is covered by his father, as the man is so excited his son is going to become a surgeon, he wants to feel like he is doing something for himself and a resident’s salary is a joke. Barely enough to survive on so he supplements with his photography, be it selling photos or working a friend’s wedding. Though, after a bad experience at a wedding for a stranger he only works them if he personally knows someone involved. He is trying to teach his daughter Portuguese but as she isn’t around him nearly enough to learn the language regularly he has to almost start over every time she comes to Providence. Recently Haylie got a role on Broadway and asked him to take their daughter. He's not sure how to juggle a three year old and a residency but he knows he'll make it work.
