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Started off with a news article clipping instead of the traditional opening paragraph.

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Evelyn reveals to Monique that she wants to tell her life story to her only and not to Vivant the magazine that Monique works for

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"People have so closely followed the most intricate details of the fake story of my life. But it's not... I don't... I want them to know the real story. The real me."

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The book switches POV from Monique's in the present to Evelyn's POV in her past.

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Divider page that separates the book into sections by who Evelyn is married to at that point in the story.

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"So I put on my favorite green dress, the one I had just about grown out of. And I knocked on the door of the guy I heard was headed to Hollywood."

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"Using Vivant to get to me. I don't quite know, but Evelyn is very calculating. She's up to something... There's another layer here. I'm convinced of it."

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"Evelyn wants me, you want Evelyn. It doesn't sound like I need to convince you, Frankie. It sounds like you need to convince me."

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"Don't be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear."

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"There is no way to take a smack across the face and look stoic. All you can do is remain still and straight ahead, allowing your face to turn red. So that's what I did. The way I'd done it when my father hit me."

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Evelyn discusses with Monique about how she was oversexulized as a teenager and how she knew she couldn't change anything about it

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Evelyn is turned down from a part simply because she is Cuban, and a white guy plays the dad. What adds to it is when Harry assumes she's Mexican and she says she's Cuban, Harry throws back, "For our purposes, same difference."

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After Don hit Evelyn, a women walks in on her trying to cover it up and Evelyn lies, but the women knows the truth but agrees anyway because like today, though more in the 50's, domestic abuse isn't reported about enough

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"None of it was Ernie's fault. I'd told him I was someone else. And then I started getting angry that he couldn't see who I really was."

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"We were married for two months before he started hitting me"

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To get more roles, Evelyn has Harry transform her into a women that would pass as white and be interesting to people. This is also the moment when Evelyn goes from Evelyn Herrera to Evelyn Hugo.

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Even when Evelyn is trying to enjoy time with her new friend Celia, she makes a joke and automatically thinks that she could never say that to her husband because he would hit her

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"'Evelyn, who was your great love? You can tell me' ... Evelyn looks out the window and breathes in deeply, 'Celia St.James'"

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" 'It shouldn't be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?' 'It's not wrong, sweetheart. It's not,' I said. 'They're wrong.' "

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"Men were almost never with me for my personality. I'm not suggesting that charming girls should take pity on the pretty ones. I'm just saying it's not so great being loved for something you didn't do."

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"I'm bisexual. Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box, Monique. Don't do that."

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"But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'You're safe with me'- that's intimacy."

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"Don rolled his eyes at me. And I thought, He's going to find an excuse to hit me later. But it will be for this."

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"I said that I used to love Don. But I don't think I've loved him for some time now."..."Now, the only person I think about is you"

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Evelyn was so happy for Celia that she kissed the TV and chipped her tooth. ADORABLE.

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Celia and Evelyn's friendship starts to form and they create an alliance between each other.

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Evelyn speaks more on how hard it was for her to admit and embrace her sexuality during a time when it wasn't permitted or welcomed.

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Evelyn and Celia argue about coming out to the public and the consequences that would come with it because of the sigma around homosexuality during that time period.

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"I like the Evelyn Hugo who sees the world for what it is and then goes out there and wrestles what she wants out of it. So, you know, put whatever label you want on it, just don't change. That would be the real tragedy."

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"You don't know how fast you have been running, how long you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, 'It's okay, you can fall down now. I'll catch you.' So I fell down. And Harry caught me."

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"I love you, too. I whispered into her ear. I love you more than anything else in the entire world."

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Evelyn plays Mick Riva so well and tricks him into giving her exactly what she wants. Making him represent his beginning description so well, "Gullible."

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Pages Hundred Eighty-Five to Eighty-Nine

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Pages Hundred Eighty-Five to Eighty-Nine

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Celia and Evelyn have a huge fight over what Evelyn did with Mick Riva and the consequences that came with it, and at the end Celia breaks up with Evelyn and moves out.

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It's revealed that at that point, Evelyn and Celia had been together for three years, and they separated with no contact after Evelyn was heartbroken for years and would often check the newspaper just to see pictures of Celia and analyze if she seemed happy.

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"That is how Celia and I forgave each other. And how we knew we couldn't live without each other. Because now we both knew what we were willing to risk. Just to be together.

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"She's gone forever. So yes, Monique, that is something I do regret. I regret every second I didn't spend with her. I regret every stupid thing I did that caused her an ounce of pain."

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"If there are different types of soulmates, then you are one of mine."

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Celia and Evelyn talk for the first time in years and talk about their break up and how both of them did things they regret and they both needed to communicate better

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"If I was going to risk my career and everything I loved for a women, it was going to be her."

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"I have no idea that in less than a week, Evelyn Higo will finish her story, and I'll find out what this is all been about, and I will hat er so much that I'll be truly afraid I might kill her."

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Evelyn marries Harry and Celia marries John and they live together hiding who they are really with to the rest of the world. Evelyn and Harry have a daughter and we get to see some of their bliss.

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"It wasn't until I was back at my apartment that I lost it. Sobbing as if she'd died. That's how final it felt. I had pushed her too far. And it was over."

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Monique comes to grip with her divorce and even stands up to David, which she hadn't been able to do before without what she has learned from Evelyn.

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Celia won another Academy Award and mentioned how last time she won Evelyn kissed the TV and chipped her tooth, which prompted Evelyn to write her a letter.

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This chapter is two pages long and we learn that Celia and Evelyn lived in Spain, together for over a decade and that Celia died in Evelyn's arms one night.

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Both Robert and Connor have died and Evelyn has no one left. This book is making me violently sob.

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"We go down there, all we do is attract attention away from the cause and towards us. The story becomes about whether we're homosexuals and not about the rights of homosexuals."

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"It's always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly."

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Evelyn talks about how Celia sees her as a lesbian when she loved her and a straight women when she hated her and how the idea of bisexuality was just being explored, but she wasn't interested in labeling herself.

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"If I can one day leave this world a little bit safer and a little bit easier for those who come after me, well that just might make it all worth it."

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"Spell it out if you have to. Say that Evelyn Hugo doesn't care if everyone forgets her name. Sat to them Evelyn Hugo just wants to go home, to her daughter, her lover, her best friend, her mother. Tell them Evelyn Hugo says good-bye."

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The big secret of why Evelyn chose Monique is revealed. Evelyn feels guilty that they man that Harry was with and in love with, that dies with him in the car crash was Monique's father.

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"Evelyn didn't pick me because she felt she owed me. She picked me because of my right-to-die piece. She picked me because I showed a unique understanding of the need for dignity in death."

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Evelyn Hugo dies

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"Doesn't it bother you? That all anyone talks about when they talk about you are the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo." ... "No, because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo. And anyway, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife."

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Evelyn realizes that finding a way to balance and mix her life with Celia and her life with Harry and Connor might be harder than she thought. Which is very common in today's world when people get remarried.

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"I can't speak for all people who have been hit by someone they love, but what I can tell you is that forgiveness is different from absolution.

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"It was one of the last times we were all together, laughing, smiling, happy. A family. Because after that, I ruined it."

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"You've never been mine. While the world gets the other half. I don't blame you, it doesn't make me stop loving you. But I cant do it, Evelyn. I can't live with my heart half-broken all the time... And she walked out the door and left me."

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"I made the good and bad fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad."

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At John's funeral, Connor sees Celia and says that she recognizes her from Evelyn's movie, not from living with her and Evelyn thinks, "That's when I knew the family I made had truly disintegrated."

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"It took me four months to realize that Max had no intention of even trying to love me, that he was only ever capable of loving the idea of me. "

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"I don't think you'll survive it. Losing me again. I don't want to let you love me if you don't think you can lose me again. One last time."

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Evelyn and Celia get back together and decide to spend the limited time they have together in Spain, because of Celia's disease.

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Harry dies in a car crash

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"I want you to stay, Harry. But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend."

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Evelyn struggles with how to help Connor deal with her father's death, while having her own struggles with losing her best friend.

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When Celia dies, Evelyn says the same words that she said when Harry died. "The devastating luxury of panic overtook me."

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"They never did care about getting it right. The media are going to tell whatever story they want to tell. They always have. They always will."

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Connor dies before her mother, Evelyn from late-stage breast cancer.

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Connor passes away from breast cancer and Evelyn once again says the words, "The devastating luxury of panic overtook me." but this time she adds, "and it has never left."

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"No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal."

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"She was never going to let anything,even a part of her body, have the power to destroy her. Evelyn is going to die when she wants to. And she wants to die now."

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"Maybe he was gay. Maybe he saw himself as straight but in love with one man. Maybe he was bisexual. Or a host of other words, but it really doesn't matter, that's the thing. He loved me and he loved my mom. Nothing I learn about him could change that."