Everybody tells Flaca that she and Caty look like sisters. They both have skin the color of cinnamon sticks, thin eyebrows and a tiny birthmark on their cheek. For months, Flaca has been trying to get Gorda to let her wear tiny braids like Caty so they can go around telling people they’re twins. Caty’s mother, who owns a hair salon said, she’d fix Flaca’s hair for free. I don’t want you to look like a cocola, Gorda said, as if it were the most terrible thing to be in the world. Caty ain’t a cocola.
Dominican girls and Black girls look alike
