Claire wonders about David Roland.
Why?

1. Because he loved her and spent hours at work wanting to brush her black hair and lick her collar bone?
   
   
2. Because he hated her?
   
   
3. Because she would leave and his thinking about her absence stewed a terror thick as silicon that leaked in his chest and clogged his ribs so his lungs couldn't get air?
   
   
4. Because he wanted to breathe?
   
   
5. Because he hated her controlling his breathing?
   
   
6. Because his future unrolled before him in increments of monkey piss and cocaine?
   
   
7. Because he hated how her cunt smelled and how he smelled when she was around him?

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   David Roland
   black hair
   monkey
   cunt

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