Consuela Comacho Ramos (Connie) Timeline and Summary

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• Consuela Comacho is born around 1940 to a Mexican-American family.
• She is determined not to be a traditional mother like her mom, and goes to college.
• She becomes pregnant by a boy named Chuck, who refuses to help care for the baby.
• She gets an abortion, and falls in love with Martín.
• Martín is killed in a knife fight soon after.
• Consuela marries Eddie Ramos. They have a daughter, Angelina.
• Eddie cheats on Consuela and beats her. They split up.
• Consuela has to work as a single mother; she has little time to see her daughter.
• Consuela meets Claud, a blind, black saxophone player and pickpocket. They are very happy together.
• Claud is arrested; in jail he is experimented on with a herpes injection, and dies.
• Consuela enters a deep depression, during which she hits Angelina and breaks her wrist.
• Consuela is committed to an institution for insanity and loses custody of her daughter, who is placed in foster care.
• After she gets out, Consuela has only her niece, Dolly, and Dolly's daughter, Nita, to care for.
• Dolly gets pregnant by her pimp, Geraldo, who tries to force her to have an abortion.
• Consuela hits Geraldo; he knocks her unconscious and commits her to the sanitarium again.
• Consuela has visions of a visitor from the future, Luciente. She starts to visit the future.
• The doctors at the asylum decide to experiment on Consuela by putting an implant in her brain. It is not successful.
• Based on her experiences in the future, Consuela decides she is at war.
• On leave with her brother Luis (who is the one who has kept her committed) she steals some poison from his greenhouse business.
• She manages to poison her doctors, possibly killing as many as four of them.
• The experiment on her brain is over, but she will presumably be committed for a long time, if not for the rest of her life.