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Characters

Dolores: Dolores is the main character. She is a very fat girl. And she is bisexual. And she gets raped. And she gets an abortion. And she goes crazy and gets locked in a mental hospital. And she masturbates a lot. And she gets abused by her family and her husband. Is there any literary cliché that doesn't happen to her? The only thing she avoids is an anal probe from space aliens--although her husband does bone her in the ass.

 

Jack:  Jack is a tenant in Dolores's grandma's house. He rapes Dolores.

 

Grandma: Grandma is Dolores's Grandma. She's kind of a bitch. She doesn't approve of Dolores.

 

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Kippy: Kippy is Dolores's roommate in college. At first Kippy hates Dolores because she is fat, but later comes to like her when Dolores becomes her personal slave.

 

Dante: Dante is Dolores's first husband and a bad poet. She thinks he's sensitive, but when he bones her in the ass she changes her mind.

 

Thayer: Thayer is Dolores's second husband. He's a real pussy. Dolores likes that.

 

Mr. Pucci: Mr. Pucci is Dolores's guidance counselor. Dolores says, "He's a homo, not that there's anything wrong with that!", and Mr. Pucci gets AIDS up the ass from his boyfriend. The last 25% of the book is AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS.

 

Dr. Shaw: Dr. Shaw is Dolores's psychiatrist. He cures Dolores by having her strip nude in front of him in a swimming pool. He plays creepy pedophile games with her which he calls therapy.

 

Dolores's Mom: Dolores's Mom kills herself because Dolores is such a depressing child.

 

Dolores's Dad: Dolores's Dad loves her Mom intensely--when he's not intensely loving other women, heh heh. Dolores refuses to speak to him because he puts his dick in other women's v_ginas.

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