Summary

In the section “The Girl from Sabona Iglesia,” Ybon shows Oscar all her photo albums of herself in her younger days during one of their next visits. From that time on, the two spend much time together. They go to the movies, they eat out, when she drinks too much and passes out. Oscar calls a cabbie he knows to help him find his way back home. In “La Inca Speaks,” she adds that Oscar had seen Ybon first at a cabaret where his cousins took him, not on the street.

In the section “Ybon, As Recorded by Oscar,” Ybon tells Oscar how she came back to Santo Domingo because her mother was sick. In the next section “What Never Changes” Yunior writes that it is obvious that Ybon likes Oscar, but seems...