The man was pushed into a ravine, and died. Amabelle overhears a conversation between Juana and her husband, Luis Luis recounts how Señor Pico sped home in his car after hearing about the delivery, and recklessly struck a pedestrian. Later that evening, Señor Pico, the señora’s husband, returns home he names his son Rafael, after the Dominican Republic’s dictator, the Generalissimo. Juana then confesses that she wished to have children of her own, but was unable to sustain a pregnancy. Soon after, a housemaid, Juana, returns and is informed of the household’s new additions she is moved to tears, and describes how Señora Valencia’s mother died in childbirth. Amabelle tells him that her mother and father were healers hearing this, the doctor urges Amabelle to travel back to Haiti as a midwife. Amabelle helps the señora deliver two children, a boy and girl: the girl, Rosalinda, has darker skin, and Señora Valencia comments that she might be “mistaken for one of” Amabelle’s people.ĭoctor Javier arrives after the birth. Amabelle rushes to help, while the señora’s father, Don Ignacio, calls for their neighborhood physician, Doctor Javier. One morning, Amabelle is woken by screams, and she realizes her employer, Señora Valencia, is entering premature labor.
Amabelle Désir, an orphaned Haitian woman in the Dominican Republic, is in love with Sebastien Onius, a cane worker.
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