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Zuotengdazuo Posted 10 years ago
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Is my understanding of this dialogue correct?

This is an excerpt from a game.

Betty: I was asking because one of my exes' cousins has been hitting on me the past couple of days.

Betty: If it were somebody else, I'd pretend to be straight with the help of this piece o' scrap(Deal)here.

Betty: Sadly, she knows who I am.

Betty: Worst part is, knowing Vero, she probably put her cousin up to it as a practical joke.

Jill: Well, I'd suggest telling the cousin that she should cut it out.

Jill: If she feels genuinely offended, they might not have been in cahoots.

Jill: But I'm just spouting nonsense based on what you've told me. Don't pay too much attention.

Betty: It's better than my suggestion.

Jill: What was yours?

Deal: Waterboarding.

Jill: I se-... what?

Deal: The fact that she knows how to waterboard somebody is what scares me most.

Betty: The Girl Scouts also taught me how to skin a deer, and I see nobody making a fuss about

Betty: But yeah, your advice sounds good enough.

Betty: Especially when you factor that if Gina's being honest about her, she probably won't feel offended.

Deal:Gina... Which one was that again?

Betty: Blonde, flat as a cutting board but cute as a button.

Deal: Oh yeah... she came to the office Christmas party, right?

Betty: That's the one.

For your information, Betty and Deal are both vets and they come to the bar for a drink. Jill works in the bar as a bartender. They were chitchating.

I don't quite understand this dialogue because I am not sure who Vero and Gina refer to respectively? And so many "her"s in the dialogue make me confused as to who they refer to respectively.Here is my understanding about the dialogue.


Betty is a lesbian. One of her exes called Vero encourages her cousin (named Gina) to hit on Betty.

But Vero knows who Betty is so Betty can't pretend to be a heterosexual with the help of her workmate(Deal). And Jill suggest that Betty tell Gina to stop doing hitting on her. If Gina feels offended, Gina might not have colluded with Vero. Then Betty says if Gina is honest about herself and really wants to develop a romantic relationship with Betty, Gina probably won't feel offended.

I don't know if I understand the dialogue correctly. Besides, I don't what "knowing Vero" means. Please let me know what it means and if I understand the dialogue correctly. Thank you in advance.
  

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You got the gist of the story. Betty: Worst part is, knowing Vero, she probably put her cousin up to it as a practical joke. We learn here that Vero is Betty's ex-spouse.

  • You got the gist of the story.
  • Betty: Worst part is, knowing Vero, she probably put her cousin up to it as a practical joke.
  • We learn here that Vero is Betty's ex-spouse.
  • Betty knows how Vero behaves and suspects that Vero told her cousin to make sexual advances as a joke.
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You got the gist of the story.

Betty: Worst part is, knowing Vero, she probably put her cousin up to it as a practical joke. We learn here that Vero is Betty's ex-spouse. Betty knows how Vero behaves and suspects that Vero told her cousin to make sexual advances as a joke.
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I see. Thank you for your answers.

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