Valentin In The Film Instructions

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Instructions not included is a very touching film. Valentin the main character in the beginning of the film lives in Acapulco where he is a playboy. In a scene a girl he was with gives him a baby and the lady says it is Valentin’s daughter.He mother leaves the baby with Valentin, and then Valentin goes after the mom trying to give back the baby. Then he decides to go to the United States looking for the mom he gets picked up by a trucjk driver where he takes him. Valentin and the baby live in Los Angeles where someone offers him a job as a stunt man. He has a good paying job where his a able to offer Maggie a good living and the years pass by. Maggie is the translator for Valentin in his job Maggie thinks that her mother travels around the

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