“Kevin: Who is you, man?
Black: Who, me?
Kevin: Yeah nigga. You. Them fronts? That car? Who is you, Chiron?
Black: I’m me, man. Ain’t trying to be nothing else.
Kevin: So you hard now?
Black: I ain’t say that.
Kevin: Then what?
[pause]
Kevin: Look. I’m not trying hem you up. Just...I ain’t seen you in a minute. Not what I expected, none of it. Not good or bad. Just not what I expected.
Black: Well, what did you expect?
[pause]
Kevin: You remember the last time I saw you?
[pause]
Black: For a long time, tried not to remember. Tried to forget all those times.
[pause]
Kevin: Yeah. I know.”
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