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Comparison Between Carrie And Ralph Vega

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The wedding of Carrie and Ralph Vega was uneventful, the only thing really sticking out during it was Carrie’s pregnant stomach. Carrie had gotten pregnant at 17, and with the pressure from Ralph and Carrie’s parents, had married her two months before she was due. After the wedding, both Ralph and Carrie were kicked out by their parents, forced to get their own house and begin to pay for everything themselves. Carrie was too pregnant for anyone to consider hiring her, and even though Ralph already had two jobs as a cashier at a local supermarket and a cook at a McDonald’s, it proved not to be enough. Selling drugs was easy enough with the connections they had, with Carrie being able to work from home even. Soon after, baby Raven was born, and …show more content…

While he was certainly not the type of man that she had one night stands with usually, she went on the expensive date with him and after slept with him. Only this time, it kept happening — going on an expensive date, sleeping together afterwards, and calling each other the next day to arrange it all over again. It became that she was spending copious amounts of time with him, and after some coaxing from him, she became his girlfriend. While Emmett did party a bit, Raven continued to party, only now having someone to drag along with her. On the converse, Raven began being dragged to Emmett’s more upscale events to act prim and proper with him. Raven eventually moved into Emmett’s beautiful penthouse in Manhattan and quit her job as a bartender when he convinced her to go to Bellhaven University for a Psychology degree. With Emmett’s connections, Raven was accepted in on the spot, and after two years together, Raven really was in love with someone for the first time. She was sure that Emmett was planning to propose to her at his parents home during this Christmas …show more content…

Things fell apart at a New Years party that Raven had taken Emmett to, with Emmett and Raven having a blowout fight over her continued drug use and reckless lifestyle. Raven found out that Emmett’s parents didn’t like her as much as they acted like they did around her and once she heard this, they were done. Raven moved out of his place and into a much less expensive place with her friend Yasmin in Soho, finding another bartender job along the way. Raven’s coping with the loss of Emmett hard, diving right back into her old destructive habits as the depression crawls back into her. While she may appear fine on the outside, Raven has been raised to keep things inside, which is exactly what she’s doing while trying to still balance

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