She and Caty decided if Flaca can’t do braids then they will both get their hair straightened. But of course every time she mentions Caty, Gorda’s excuse for giving her a hard time is that although she likes Caty and she doesn’t mind they’re best friends, she’s Haitiana, and Gorda doesn’t know about those people. Flaca knows her mother talks as if she doesn’t like people and then she goes ahead and does something nice for them. Like just the other day Gorda sent Caty’s mother a piece of Dominican cake, left over from her birthday. She even sent her oils for her temples when she found out that
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Opportunity to erase division between Dominican and Haitian but wall remains with the monther. As women help each other out but as two sides of the country, comparisons and distrust exist
