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Lola gets boned by the father of one of her classmates at school. She is such a slut that she lets him bone her on the first date. Lola demands two thousand dollars for sex. She gets paid. Now Lola is a certified whore.


None of this is remotely believable. No one pays $2000 for sex with a whore. Especially an ordinary teenage girl in the Dominican Republic.


Back in America, her boyfriend Max died. His head was crushed by two passenger buses. Don't try to understand it.


The next chapter, for once, starts by telling us up front who is being talked about: Alebard Cabral, the father of Beli, the grandfather of Lola and Oscar, and a doctor. He lived under the Trujillo dictatorship.

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Apparently Trujillo was always looking for new women to bone and insisted that Alebard bring his wife and one of his daughters to his party. Alebard refused and he was sent to jail as a result.


None of this is credible. Are we supposed to believe that the dictator of the Dominican Republic kept tabs on everyone's daughters and demanded to meet each and every one of them? That would be thousands and thousands of people. When would he have time for anything else?


Nevertheless we are supposed to believe that Trujillo was so angry at Alebard for keeping his daughter away from his parties that he put Alebard in jail. The other prisoners were told that Alebard was a homosexual communist. The other prisoners forced Alebard to take off his clothes and to sleep next to the toilet. They rubbed shit in his face while he slept.


This didn't happen all at once, however; Alebard had plenty of time to flee the country with his family once he learned of Trujillo's intentions. He simply didn't.


Alebard died in jail. Alebard's two daughters were killed. Alebard's wife died after giving birth to a third daughter. The third daughter was born black. We are told that being born black is bad luck. Hey, isn't that racist? The Dominicans must be very racist people. If Alebard's wife had given birth to former President Obama, they probably would have considered that bad luck too.


We are told that everything--the death of Alebard, the death of his wife, the death of his two daughters, the third daughter being born black, is due to a curse on the family. This is a theme that is repeated about 5000 times in this book. But since curses are not real, this theme makes no sense.


Anyway, since the mother died, the child, named Beli, had no family, and was sold to one family after another. Alebard's cousin La Inca tracked Beli down and found her living in a chicken coop. She had terrible burns on her back. La Inca raised Beli, her cousin's daughter, as her own.


In the next chapter the asswipe author stops playing games and tells us immediately the chapter is about Oscar. Oscar has become a school teacher but is still miserable because no woman will let him bone her.


Oscar for some reason goes to the Dominican Republic and lives with his "grandmother" La Inca. Then he falls in love with a whore named Ybon.


Ybon will not bone him but they have long talks together. Ybon talks about her many abortions and the details about life as a common whore. Oscar watches Ybon's clients coming to bone Ybon and imagines a day when he too will be thrusting between her legs.

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