The Last Black Unicorn

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One day,    he  asked   me:

Roscoe:  “What   yer     fay-vor-it  cologne,    Tiĉ-a-Knee?
What youu want your man to smell like?”

Tiffany:    “Clean, Roscoe. I   want    him to  smell   clean.”

Roscoe:  “You    like    Old     Spice?  You     like    Brut?   You     like
Cool Water? Cool Water smells clean?”

Tiffany:    “I  don’t   know    if  I   like    that,   I   don’t   even    know
what that stuff smells like. As long as he smells clean. I
like my man to smell clean. My boyfriend’s cologne is
pretty good.”

At the time, I was dating Titus, and he worked in the
airport. In fact, he was part of the same department that
Roscoe worked for, but for a diĉerent airline. I told Roscoe
this, and he said:


Roscoe: “Okay,  I   go  see yer boy-fren.   I   goin’   smell   him,
I goin’ find out what’chu like.”

I didn’t think about that weird-ass statement until about
two months later, when I was going through the breakup
with Titus. He had lost his job at the airport, and we were
having serious problems, and Roscoe came up to me and
said:


Roscoe: “Tiĉ-a-Knee,    why youuu   got a   damn    man who
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