… south of here they were having a party with streamers of the stuff, miles and miles of toilet paper, but here in the hyper-new, all-leftist future coming at us at the rate of rock-n-roll there was just a lot of nothing, no more wiping your bum, no more Coca-Cola, no beans or rice: except for me they got no more shiny pants, no more spiked heels. No unslakable thirst! No kissing while dancing! No whores! No meat! No milk!
-- The Narrator  (Part One)

Importance: This quote from the story's opening moments draws a vivid picture of the narrator's very Americanized attitudes towards life in the newly socialist (i.e., leftist) Nicaragua. It sums up the author's essential perspective on being in the situation in which she finds herself, a perspective which both partly defines her reasons for so desperately wanting to get out of the country and her actions while attempting to do so.

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-- The Narrator  (Part One)