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Part 1, Waiting

• Dolores sits at her bedroom window waiting for her father to come home. She says when sees him she has to run down and tell her mother.

• Dolores explains she lives with her four sisters and parents in a cramped house in Cardiff, Wales. She shares her bedroom and two of her sisters. Her two older sisters have a room of their own.
• Dolores runs down to her mother to tell her her father is coming towards the house.

• The first chapter ends with an adult Dolores staring out of the same bedroom, waiting for her sisters.

Part 1, Chapter 1

• Dolores talks about her father Frankie. Before Dolores was born he had a half share in a diner with his friend Salvatore. Unfortunately, Frankie preferred to gamble than to work.

• When Frankie hears Mary is pregnant with Dolores he decides the new baby will bring him luck...

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