Sentimental Denial

There is a deep love for this young man as he gets off the mail truck in the small community in northern New Mexico. He has just been discharged from the U.S. Navy and he has returned to seek the love of the, once upon a time, unattractive girl that has now turned out to be a Cinderella. The small community is El Rito where this romantic comedy novel begins. It is a community inhabited by mostly Spanish speaking people who's ancestors were left there after the Spanish American War with mexico. The young man now tries to woe and persuade the beautiful girl, Tina Marie to marry him even though he had ridiculed her in her younger years. Tina Marie in retribution rejects him for the happenings of long ago past. In his perseverance for the conquest for Tina Marie, he entangles himself in some of the most hilarious events possibly imagined. This novel consists of perseverance of love, comedy, tragedy, an unspeakable double barrel shotgun wedding and ends with the most important word of all -- LOVE.