![]() ![]() ![]() One day, Minerva discovers that Papá has a mistress and three illegitimate daughters. Dedé settles for marrying her cousin Jaimito, and Virgilio is eventually driven into exile by the Trujillo regime. Throughout the novel, she is affected by a portrait of Trujillo that hangs beside one of Jesus, which to her represent God and the Devil, side by side.ĭedé becomes infatuated with Virgilio Morales, a young Communist intellectual who is always in trouble with the law, but Virgilio ends up dating Minerva instead. However, she later sees a vision of the Virgin Mary and her faith is restored. When she delivers a stillborn child, her faith is shaken and she forsakes the church for a time. Instead, she marries a farmer named Pedrito at age sixteen, and has a son, Nelson, and a daughter, Noris. Patria soon discovers her sexuality, however, and gives up her dream of being a nun. As most people assume, she wants to become a nun. Patria is the most religious of the sisters. ![]() Her next encounter with the dictator comes when she witnesses Trujillo seducing, and then abandoning, a friend of hers from school, Lina Lovatón. This is Minerva’s first insight into the devastating politics of the regime. Minerva convinces Papá to allow the girls to go to a convent school, and there she meets Sinita, a girl whose male family members have all been killed by Trujillo. ![]()
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