What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight. People can run off all they want. But for me, [Donald] Trump is already in the Dominican Republic.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.