between the pool and the gardenias notes

-starts off describing the little girl that the narrator had seen on the side of the curb in a pink blanket
-she was brown skinned and bonny, and looked like an angle from heaven or a bible character. so in other words precise
-she was wearing a blue dress that spelled out rose
- she wonders if she is a charm sent to trap her. she says her enemies were the women that slept with her husband when she was going through her miscarriages
- she had had many miscarriages because her body couldn't hold the baby
- she had names that she would have named her baby girl, and those were characters in the other stories like Eveline, Josephine, Jacqueline, Celianne
-she goes over and picks up the little girl and says rose my child and brings her in, or adopts her
- the narrator says she smelt like gardenias and fish
- the narrator goes on to talk about her family history to rose and tell her great grandmother, her grandmother, and her godmother
-she tells rose about her husband that had 10 other kids with ten women but explains that she loved him a one point until she got old
- the Dominican that cleaned the pool the narrator had made love to before \
-after 3 days rose starts to smell very harshly and even when she takes three baths a day the smell won't go down, so there is something else wrong why she smells so badly
-narrator says she wanted to take her back to the street where she found her
-she left the little girl in a shack where the Dominican kept his tools
- she later dug a hole to burry rose in In the garden, the Dominican grabbed her shoulder and rose slipped out of her hands into the whole (rose probably died)
- then the Dominican man questions the narrator why she did what she did
- they stay patiently and she says she should have as his name before making love to him.
- she is a country maid
- also she says she seen everything she seen in all the other girls that she had miscarriages with

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