Summary

When Lola learns it is time for her to leave Santo Domingo, she admits to running away again. She quits the track team, breaks up with Max and has sex with the father of one of her classmates. She asks the man for two thousand dollars for the sex. When her mother comes to pick her up, she tells Lola she is ugly, putting the girl right back where she was before her time away. Lola says she would have run away again, but instead gives the money to Max’s brother when she learns of Max’s death. She begins crying on the plane on the way back to America.

In the section “The Famous Doctor” Abelard is not only a surgeon, but he has also inherited two supermarkets, a cement factory and several farms...