Ruby Cathy -- Eighteen and desperately lonely,??she has adjusted from a life in the sun and blue??seas of the West Indies to the mean, crowded streets??of Harlem. Her mother is dead, and her father is??obsessed with the American passion to succeed. Ruby??makes the painful transition from girl to woman??when she meets the beautiful and bitter??Daphne. Daphne Duprey -- She prides herself on always??being "cool, calm, collected, poised,??sophisticated,...
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