Dedé 1994
- This part is called "Part 4: Epilogue."
- People come visit Dedé to tell her that they had seen her sisters before they died on that terrible afternoon.
- The girls had left town, passed the Public Works truck, and then come upon an ambush. The Public Works truck driver saw them being led away but was too afraid to do anything.
- The five murderers were tried a year after Trujillo was gone (he died in 1961). They had killed the girls and Rufino and put them back in the jeep, then pushed it over the edge of a cliff.
- Dedé (in 1994) listens to Minou getting ready for bed in her mom's old room.
- She remembers the night of her sisters' deaths, when the servant boy from her mom's house came to tell her to come quickly.
- She and Jaimito go to her mom's and find out that there has been a telegram saying that there was an accident and that the girls are in the hospital.
- Mamá and Dedé pack bags for the girls, but then another car comes down the drive.
- It's another telegram, and Dedé has to tell her mother that there is no need for a bag.
- Dedé has to fight the guards at the morgue to get in and see her sisters' bodies.
- They put all four of the bodies in pine boxes, and drive them home through the towns in the back of the pickup. Dedé rides in the back with them, and the people come out and throw flowers over the coffins as they pass.
- Dedé shakes herself out of the memory and talks to Minou about her baby, Camila.
- The husbands would tell Dedé their versions of the last afternoon, too. Leandro and Manolo were transferred back to La Victoria right after the murders, and had no idea that their wives were dead. On visiting day, instead of seeing their wives awaiting them, they saw Johnny Abbes and Cándido Torres, thrilled to give them the news.
- After her sisters were gone, Dedé became their representative with the new president and at official events in their honor.
- When he got out of prison, Manolo had gone up into the mountains and continued broadcasting rebel messages on the radio. The government broadcast a promise of amnesty, so he and his fellow guerrillas came down the mountain, where they were shot.
- On the day before he came down, Manolo sent a seashell to his daughter, Minou. Dedé kept his death a secret from her for quite a while.
- Minou calls Doroteo, her husband, and Dedé goes outside to give her some privacy. She begins counting up her losses.
- After Manolo died, Pedrito got his lands back and married a young girl. Leandro got out of politics and became a rich builder with a new family.
- Mamá and Dedé raised the children, and Mamá hung on for twenty years before dying.
- Dedé remembers meeting Lío recently at a reception for her sisters. She usually needs a shot of rum before she goes to these events to take the edge off. They sat and chatted for a while about what the sisters did.
- Dedé isn't convinced that the sacrifice was worth it, even though she feels guilty for saying so.
- Minou is off the phone and comes to get Dedé.
- Dedé thinks about the prize trip she's won this year from selling life insurance policies, and plans to use it to go to Canada. She's divorced, and she met a Canadian man in Spain the year before that told her about the maples changing colors. She wants to see it.