“Alma” details the relationship between Yunior and Alma, Yunior’s Dominican college girlfriend. She is an artist who is very sexually adventurous. Yunior says, “Yes—it’s an opposites-attract sort of thing, it’s a great-sex sort of thing, it’s a no-thinking sort of thing. It’s wonderful! Wonderful!” (47). The relationship ends, however, when Alma reads Yunior’s journal, in which he details the sexual affairs he’s been having, particularly one with an Guyanese woman named Laxmi whom Alma assumes is Indian. Yunior claims the entries were part of a work of fiction he’s writing, but this is a lie. Yunior says, “This is how you lose her” (48).