Summary

Chapter 24 is titled Poor Leslie. Leslie is a young single mother and aspiring writer. She knows Clark. Dorothy contacts Juan Diego with the information that she's met “poor Leslie” in a time of need. Clark and Juan Diego continue to communicate and Clark obviously disapproves of Juan Diego's relationship with Dorothy and Miriam. Juan Diego fully expects that Dorothy and Leslie might have had sex. He briefly considers going home.

He thinks back to Edward and Flor, and the fact that Edward had seen her photo long before he met her. He once asked Dr. Vargas if that was “coincidence or fate,” but Vargas said it was “somewhere in between.” Juan Diego decides that his current situation is also “somewhere in between” coincidence and fate. Juan Diego meets up with Dorothy, though he isn't certain that he wants to. Almost as soon as...