The Last Black Unicorn

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don’t   havva   job?    Youuu   too good    for dat,    Tiĉ-a-Knee,
your man gotta havva job!”

I don’t know how Roscoe knew that, because I didn’t tell
nobody that my man got fired.
I wondered for a second if Roscoe had something to do
with it, but that’s ridiculous—how’s a handicapped guy with
a little baby arm gonna get my man fired?
ͳe breakup with Titus was hard. I spent months getting
over him, crying, being sad and fucked up.
Every day, Roscoe was telling me I’m beautiful. Even on
the days I was coming in tired and burnt out, with nasty,
puĉy eyes, because I’d been crying all night, he still told me
I’m beautiful.


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

Roscoe gave me my space when I needed it, but he pretty
quickly got back to asking me out. And now it went from
once a week, to every single day.


Roscoe: “TIFF-A-KNEE!   Youu    are so  booty-full! Can we
go on a date? You want to go on a date with meee?”

One day, I was mnally over my ex-boyfriend. I don’t know
what possessed me, maybe it was the Filet-O-Fish that
Roscoe had just brought me, but I said:


Tiffany:    “Yeah,  fuck    it. Let’s   go  on  a   date,   Roscoe. Let’s
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