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The protagonists are an Asian woman and a Latina, with an African-American in a prominent supporting role, passing MediaNotes/DeggansRule. The story has nothing to do with race, bar some implied subtext between Destiny and Elizabeth.



* UsefulNotes/DeggansRule: The protagonists are an Asian woman and a Latina, with an African-American in a prominent supporting role. The story has nothing to do with race, bar some implied subtext between Destiny and Elizabeth.
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* FormallyNamedPet: One of the women Ramona and Destiny employ to work their scam has a pet chihuahua named Mister Bruce that travels everywhere with her in her handbag.
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* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: Along with her two protégées, Mercedes and Annabelle, Ramona targets rich men at bars, gets them drunk, and then escorts them to Moves where the girls steal their credit card numbers and charge them to their limit. As part of getting the mark drunk, the girls pretend to match him drink for drink, but while one of them distracts him, the others tip out their drinks.
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* SupportYourParents: Dorothy drugs and robs wealthy men at the strip club she works in partly to provide for her grandmother, who raised her after she was abandoned by her parents. She pays off her grandmother's debts, moves their family into a beautiful mansion, and gifts her expensive jewelry for Christmas.

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