BACKWOOD LOVERS

                                                                       Backwood   Lovers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

  Vin Lowe was hardly back home in Jamaica before he started dating two village girls, Megan Whyte and Leta  Rowe.  He  would take one girl out on Friday night and the other out on Saturday night. They would end up at either his house, the River Road or the Hill View hotel or the Keswick back road. Vin had spent four years studying abroad  before returning home to run his late parents shop and bar.  His former girlfriend, Marsha Lecky, is still around but she is seeing another man, his arch-enemy, Nollis Binns. She and he had a short-lived romance which ended when another boy told a lie on her. Nollis has  several taxis and at least two mini buses on the road. He has at least three baby mothers fighting over him. He has bought a car for Marsha and for one of his other women.  Nollis is suspicious that Marsha wants to leave him and return to Vin. His women  believe that she has no interest in Nollis and is just after his money and will return to Vin when she gets enough. Two women, Ann and Miss Caroll  whom he used to go around with before he went away, want him and is prepared to fight for him. Vin’s former girlfriend in America, April, wants   him back and warns his women including Marsha, Ann and Miss Carol to leave him alone. Despite his doubts, Nollis does not believe that Marsha can afford to leave him for Vin. He claims that Vin is bankrupt and is running a broken down old shop. Things are changing for Vin as he is not only secretly seeing Ann and Miss Carol but dancing with Marsha again. But what will Marsha and his other women do when they find out about him and those two women?

 

                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

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