If I hadn't known since even before I read it that the survivor out of the Mirabal sisters would be Dedé and someone told me to guess, I would have guessed that it would be Maria Teresa, because if there was an "odd one out," I would have said it's Maria Teresa. For some reason- and don't get me wrong, it didn't make me think more or less of her, or differently than I thought of the Mirabal sisters in general, like in terms of their spirit and such- she seemed different. The others seemed very oriented to their cause and kenw their beliefs, and really believed in them. And even though Patria was the nice one, the maternal one, married at sixteen though she thought she wuld become a nun because of her devotion to the Virgencita, and even though Minerva was the strong-willed, headstrong political one, and Dedé didn't have a specific "thing" so to speak, I felt like they were all united in their causes- other ones first, then against Trujillo. Maybe it's because Maria Teresa was the baby- but not just the baby, she was a full 9 years younger than Minerva, the next-youngest. So I guess I just wouldn't have expected her rather than Dedé to become so involved in the rebellion against the Dominican government. She also- in her diary keeping- seemed more interested in other things- boyfriends, the drama going on with her friends... btu who knows, maybe the other three would have been the same if I had been reading their writings from as young an age as I was reading Maria Teresa's? Also, she must have been much less under the influence of the others than Minerva, Dedé, or Patria could have been- simply because she was at Inmaculada Concepcion (their boarding school) when Minerva was near to finishing.
Anyway. That's all... just an observation.
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