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He is a doting dad and is crazy about all of his daughters, but he's not such a great husband. However, Don Enrique also has a dark side. He has a secret, second family, with four other daughters, that he keeps in a house far out on the property. When Minerva finds out and rams his car in anger, he takes her out into the back yard and slaps her. At that moment, though, Minerva,his daughter, realizes, "He was the weakest one of all. It was he who would have the hardest time living with the shabby choices he'd made" . That weakness is what leads to Enrique's downfall. Because he doesn't stand up to Trujillo all the way, he just ends up on the fence and in jail. When he gets out he's a broken man, talking nonsense: "Every

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