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Dempsey and Clara get into a physical fight outside Clara's home. After the theatrics, they go back into the house. Dempsey makes herself a cup of cocoa and cries a lot and loudly.
Clara pushes Serene into the shower door. It splinters into a thousand tiny pieces. But Serene is not injured at all. Serene leaves and goes home.
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I should be on the ground crying, too, but I have way more control than that.
May 19, 2026 03:11PM
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"I believe we are dealing with a ghost," I tell her. "But I don't know if the ghost is the mother in the book, and further, I don't know if the woman in the book is the woman here on earth."
May 23, 2026 07:10PM
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In this timeline, Marcus is Abbe who is Clara and Dempsey's father. Clara and Dempsey is trying to stop Serene and Abbe from conceiving them according to Veronica in order to stop the abuses. Which in fact is stopping Serene from having sex with Marcus.
May 23, 2026 07:10PM
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La Tonya Jordan is on page 226 of 368
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The margarita is gorgeous and fake-sweet, so I drain it.

Don't do it again, Don't leave me alone, all by myself, just to get happy.

"She thinks you're our mother," I say, just as a leaf blower disappears my sentence into the atmosphere.
May 21, 2026 06:41PM
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Dempsey exposes to Serene that Clara thinks she is their mother back from the dead. It does not faze Serene. Dempsey had one time sexual relationship with Kendrick. Kendrick adopted her and raised her. This is why they do not talk. Veronica wants a passport or something tangible to use against Serene to find out her true identity. Clara is drinking way too much and having sexual relations with strangers.
May 21, 2026 06:36PM
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La Tonya Jordan is on page 214 of 368
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Hands are always a dead giveaway as to your class.

Here, one can see all the way up into the truth of anything.

Some women love to see other women flailing. They just do, only they'll never even be honest about it.

"I think we might have been led," says Toyah, who I feel like never forgave Dr. Rayna for not having wine at the retreat.
May 20, 2026 06:34PM
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Dempsey remembers childhood memories that Clara remembers differently. Dempsey goes to Marcus performance. It is not well attended. She has a conversation with Raoul and finds out he likes celebrity gossip as she does.

Serene wants to help Clara and wants Dempsey help. Serene admits she needs the money.

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The margarita is gorgeous and fake-sweet, so I drain it.
May 20, 2026 06:30PM
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La Tonya  Jordan
La Tonya Jordan is on page 170 of 368
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When you have grown up without much of anything, not knowing how to keep anything, least of all yourself, it does not matter if people think you are beautiful.

If I weren't awake I'd think I was dreaming. If I weren't sober I'd swear I was still drunk.
May 18, 2026 06:51PM
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La Tonya  Jordan
La Tonya Jordan is on page 170 of 368
Dempsey has shown up unexpectedly at Clara's and Serene is at Clara's. Serene is inviting Dempsey into Clara's house.

Serene is starting to take over Clara's life.
May 18, 2026 06:48PM
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La Tonya Jordan is on page 128 of 368
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a curvy Black woman with a super-hot boyfriend; tall, so he
doesn't make her feel fat.
not at all
a curvy Black woman who loves her family NO MATTER
What (will move mountains for them).
May 17, 2026 05:01PM
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La Tonya  Jordan
La Tonya Jordan is on page 128 of 368
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I start to count all the ways I can be different.....
a curvy Black woman who everyone likes because she is always
jolly
a curvy Black woman who everyone likes because she doesn't
take herself too seriously and is always, always smiling
through it all
May 17, 2026 05:01PM
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