11: Christmas in July & Other Surprises for Josefina

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Surprise! We are three books into the Josefina series and everyone in the Montoya household is still super sad. As Mary and Allison continue their exploration of Josefina’s colonial world, they find her Christmas story to be both deeply moving and riddled with Catholic guilt. As the sisters continue to grapple with the loss of Mama, their grief is eclipsed only by Dolores’s drive to work. While evaluating the town’s Freudian passion play that is at the center of the action, Mary reveals her own thespian past & a Quincinera connection. Finally, after unlocking a potential connection to the film Sister Act 2, Mary and Allison consider how religion has shaped American girls from Josefina to Hannah B. Perhaps most importantly, the hosts also use this episode to consider whether Bachelor contestants are most deserving of encounters with the sublime (i.e. Vermeer paintings and Dollywood).

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0:00.0	Okay, Allison, as you know, I'm constantly doing research for this show, seeking out connections, following leads, trying to understand what we're up against with these books.
0:11.0	So I found out that Dolores is the plural form of Dolar meaning
0:18.2	sorrow or pain and you know it might actually come from a translation of Our Lady of Sorrows which is the title attributed to Mary the Mother of Jesus.
0:28.4	But I've actually been seeking out 90s examples of Dolores and I think I stumbled on something that
0:35.3	Val may have seen that may have inspired the story of this and every other book in
0:42.4	this series and to give you a hint I would like to
0:46.2	perform something that was a rap originally but because I'm a white girl from
0:51.8	Connecticut I will be performing it as spoken word.
0:55.0	Are you ready? I'm always ready. Okay. Joyful, joyful, Lord we adore thee.
1:02.0	And in my life I put none before. That was
1:15.0	G. O D. G. O D. G. O D.
1:17.0	Can you know me?
1:18.0	You know G. Yeah you know me.
1:20.0	And I was G. O. D.
1:21.0	And I was G. O. D. That was, you know, you know, some lines from the culminating scene of Sister Act 2 in which...
1:30.0	The lead character was one Dolores Van Cartier.
1:37.0	Wow.
1:38.0	Just sit with that.
1:39.0	What does it mean?
1:41.0	So I'm thinking to myself, Act came out in 1992 and Sister Act 2 came out in 1993.
1:48.0	You know, Dolores in those in Sister Act 2 kind of would take people under her wing and kind of meet
1:54.7	them where they're at and help them through their issues so they could be the
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