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Dolores feels like a slave and is infuriated. Dante tries to console her by stripping off her clothes, pushing her to the floor of the van, and boning Dolores up the ass. Later, Dolores gets ass cream because her ass is bleeding. Maybe it's that time of the month and she is getting her ass-period, heh heh.


Dante tells Dolores that he lost his teaching job due to false accusations that he was boning one of his students. He's very upset and decides to work on his poetry, which pays nothing.


Later when they are having sex Dolores warns him that she isn't on birth control. She tells him to pull out and "his p_nis bounced and jerked against my belly and he laughed and watched his semen ooze and trickle down her side." Heh heh heh.

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But when Dolores comes home unexpectedly she finds Dante boning the schoolgirl who got him fired. She realizes the accusations against him are true and that he was boning one of his students.


Dante explains boning the young girl as simply a "muscle spasm", heh heh heh--I'm laughing so hard I can barely type!!!


Dolores is very angry about this and feels that the young girl is being taken advantage of just as Jack took advantage of her<---Major theme here!


She reveals everything to Dante about her past, how she was in a mental hospital, how she tried to kill herself, how she was raped, how she was fat, how she was a lesbian, etc. And she told Dante how she knew Kippy and intercepted all of his letters to Kippy and those letters were why she pursued him.


Dolores says she pursued him because she thought he was sensitive, but now realizes he is just an asshole. Dante, shocked by these admissions, runs away and quickly files for divorce.


Dolores visits her old guidance counselor Mr. Pucci. His boyfriend Gary is dying of AIDS.


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The next 30 pages are nothing but talk about AIDS. Gary dies of it, Mr. Pucci gets it, then he dies of it. There is no discussion in any of this how Gary got it--the only way he could have is if he was unfaithful to Mr. Pucci and boned other men in the ass. There was no mention of how it was transmitted--anal sex is 100 times more likely to transmit AIDS. There is no mention of personal responsibility, just sadness for these two men without talking about what caused their illness. By the way, "Pucci" is pronounced "Pussy". Coincidence? I don't think so!


Skip ahead 30 pages.


Dolores meets a wimpy guy named Thayer. She wants Thayer to impregnate her. Thayer is willing but wants her to marry him. Dolores is wary of marrying again after Dante, but she realizes that Thayer is much more sensitive than Dante ever does, and agrees to marry him.


The End


 


Literary Criticism:


This book really threw in the entire kitchen sink of suffering one can find in literature. Abortion? Check. Attempted Suicide? She did that. Rape? Check. Lesbian sex? Yes. Abusive boyfriend. Yep. Killing innocent fish? Yes. Fatty fat fat? Yes. AIDS AIDS AIDS? Yes.


I must admit that there were some very funny lines in this book. And a lot of things happened in the story. But my problem with this book wasn't the pacing, but the main character. Dolores was abused, but she was also unsympathetic. I was tired of reading how she got fat and masturbated all the time. It was disgusting. She secretly arranged to get pregnant without telling her boyfriend, and then hypocritically said she loved her baby and then killed it.


She was an extremely unlikeable character, and that made the entire book unenjoyable. Perhaps if she had done a little less eating, a little less masturbating, and a little less baby killing, and shown some more redeeming qualities, her character might have been more interesting to follow.

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