The Last Black Unicorn

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Tiffany:    “What’d you say,    Roscoe?”

Roscoe:  “She    stoopid     talkin’     to  youuu   like    dat,    Tiĉ-a-
Knee. She can’t be talkin’ to youuu like dat. Fuckin’
bitch.”

Tiffany:    “Roscoe,    you can’t   talk    like    that    at  work!”

It was even more shocking coming from him, because I
kind of assumed that handicapped people don’t curse and
talk shit. I always think if someone’s handicapped, then
they’re automatically some innocent angel. ͳat’s totally
ridiculous of course, but I still thought it.
And nobody could get mad at him, because he’s
handicapped. Who’s gonna yell at a handicapped dude with
a stroke face and little dead baby arm, just because he
cursed?
I liked Roscoe, and we had fun—but Roscoe was into me,
too. I mean, really into me, and not subtle at all. Every day
when he saw me, he’d come up to me and say:


Roscoe: “TIFF-A-KNEEEEE!    You so  booty-full! You look
soooo good too-day!”

He would notice everything. I could change one little
thing, and he would notice it. I’d come into work, he’d see
me, his eyes would go all bugged out and crazy, and he’d
slur out:

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