25 mars 1970 - Virgil met Opal

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VIRGIL LAFLEUR, OPAL JEWEL’S BEST FRIEND AND LONGTIME STYLIST: I had been living up in Harlem for about seven years by the time I first encountered Mad [LaFleur’s nickname for Opal, short for “Mademoiselle”].My apartment was on the third floor, so I could see her arrive from my window—she was dragging those bags up the stoop and looking every bit the tortured hot mess. I suppose I was somewhere in the upper twenties by then.... But do take note, s’il vous plaît, that I had the physique and nerve of a nineteen-year-old. Let me remember... 1970... My God, I would rather not, but all right: Earlier in the year I was an understudy for the role of Othello—[in a rumbling baritone] you see, I had Shakespearean training

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