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Frederico thinks his wife vanessa is cheating on him with his cousin ramon. In february of 2014, this romantic and wellknown story became a broadway musical. Serialized tv was just starting to go mainstream, and the idea of a television show that was as emotionally deep not to mention as good looking as a film and was still relatively novel. I did not watch the show when it was originally on as i didnt have hbo, but purchased the complete series as a boxed set a few months ago.
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