... and raised the children. According to Gilmore's essay the worst thing a man can do is depend on a women because it diminishes their manhood. "To be dependent upon another man is bad enough, but to acknowledge dependence upon another woman is worse. The reason, of course, is that this inverts the normal order of family ties, which in turn destroys the normal ... life the way everyone else did. "Since Alfredo was not a real man, as his community had decided, then his daughters, by logical extension, could not be product of his own seed. The explanation that tied all together was that he w...

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