He spoke of it as well with his mistress, Señora Lydia Abenader, one of the three women who had rejected his marriage offer upon his return from his studies in México; now a widow and his number-one lover, she was the woman his father had wanted him to bag in the first place, and when he’d been unable to close the deal his father had mocked him as a half-man even unto his final days of bilious life (the third reason he’d gone after Socorro).
dominican identity // masculinity
