Caray, Caray!

Capitulo 177.
Read Julie’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

Everybody's talking about love today.

• Julieta realizes Lety loves Fernando.
• Marcia tells Teresita that Fernando loves Lety.
• Teresita gives her definition of love.
• Omar thinks that the cure for a broken heart is a callgirl.
• Fernando tells four people that he loves Lety (Bartender 1, Paulina, Bartender 2, Taxista).
• Marcia asks Fernando what makes him fall in love with a woman.
• Marcia shows her "love" by crushing Fernando into even finer powder. She implies that Lety's actions demonstrate that Lety doesn't love Fern, while her own actions demonstrate that she does.
• Lety asks Aldo what love means to him, and he tells her.
• Aldo tries to weaken Lety's love for Fernando by listing how terrible he is.

1. MamaJ wonders why Lety did dirty business. She realizes Lety fell in love with Fernando.

2. Marcia tells MamaT that Fern fell in love with Lety, and Marcia knows she’s lost. MamaT tells her not to give up. Lety is NOTHING compared to Marcia, Fern had temporary insanity, and if he sees Lety again he’ll come to his senses.

3. Omar tells Fern he should spend his energy recovering Conceptos. Fern says he can’t think of anything until he resolves the Lety matter. Omar warns she’s going to come back transformed.

4. Lety refuses to let the hairdresser do anything. She has a meltdown, remembering the green nightmare. She Aldo tells Caro Lety is too fragile right now, and Caro shouldn’t have pressured her.

5. Tom tells Lety the papers were inadequate. The board is furious and Fern begged Lety to call him. She’s refuses to jump for the board; they need to respect her. If Fern is distressed, that’s his problem.

6. Omar hires a honey to tempt Fern back into his old life. He says, “Ay, Fernando, tonight you’ll forget all about your gargolita, I assure you.”

7. Aldo gives Lety a broken shell. She feels like he understands her. He says Caro wants to help her, but he likes her just as she is with her hurts and pains. Aldo says she thinks she’s fea so that’s what she projects. It’s her identity and she’s afraid to change because she won’t know who she is.


8. Lety asks Aldo why the wreck upset him so much, and he refuses to answer. She says his pop philosophy is a lie because he’s not happy either. He likes that she stands up to him like that.

9. MamaJ asks Tom what Fern did to Lety. Tom can’t answer; it’s too personal.

10. Omar says he has a surprise for Fern. Something he lost some time ago and misses very much. Fern concludes it’s Lety and Omar doesn’t argue.

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Capitulo 178.
Read Alma’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Fernando thinks it strange that Lety would agree to meet him at a hotel. But he’s thrilled and he forgives Omar for all the stupid things he’s done.

2. Marcia tells MamaT that if Lety comes back to sign the papers, Fern won’t let her go and Lety might try to win him back too. MamaT says Marcia should fight for her man.

3. Aldo tells Lety that he renounced his family because his father insisted that he become an engineer. His mother died when he was an adolescent. He’s unwilling to tell Lety what upset him today.

4. Fern looks for Lety in the hotel bar, and he describes her to the bartender. Paulina the working girl starts working him but all he wants to talk about is Lety. He says his friend located her and set up this date, then her realizes Omar duped him.

5. Lety and Caro mutually apologize for what happened at the hairdresser. Lety says the board ordered her to attend the meeting tomorrow, but she won’t go. Aldo invites everyone to his fiesta for Lety.

6. Fern lets Paulina kiss him while he looks at Lety’s photo, but it’s not working. She discovers the photo and leaves. Fern says her kisses don’t have the magic of Lety’s.


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Pardon me, I’m going to take a little space to detail Marcia’s two usual rants, so in the future I can just refer to them by name and not repeat myself every time Marcia does (remember “Juan’s Lines” and “Sofia’s Lines”?).
7. Marcia asks Fern what he’ll do if Lety doesn’t come back or doesn’t want him. Fern’s unwilling to discuss it. She asks him what traits make him fall in love with a woman. She gives what I will hereafter call “The Marcia Taunt”: Lety delivered his head to the committee; she gave Marcia his cards and letter, the proof of his treachery (Marcia leaves out the part about calling Security); she sends a stand-in when he asks her to meet with the board; and she acts like she doesn’t feel anything for Fernando (that last one was a dagger to the heart). He’s in water up to his neck and Lety left him. Fern says he hurt Lety, but Marcia counters with what I will hereafter call “The Marcia Pitch”: even though he hurt her, she’ll always stand by her man (right beside Tammy Wynette). She could never abandon him like Lety did.

8. Aldo says love means being able to give up everything for love, and to love the other person’s defects and weaknesses. He says a man feels protected and supported with a woman like her.

9. Aldo must’ve taken lessons from Marcia. What shall we call this? “The Aldo Accusation”? He tells Lety, “I know how much you love Fernando, but he doesn’t deserve you. He deceived you and used you. You gave him all your love and he didn’t give any back. You know how to love and he doesn’t.” To change the subject, she asks him to dance.

Too bad the band doesn’t play Save the Last Dance for Me. (Laugh and sing, but while we’re apart, don’t give your heart to anyone.)

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