CLAIRE. Why would I paint you naked?...

Dirty Birds

Claire Billie


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CLAIRE. Why would I paint you naked?

BILLIE. Because you used to see me naked all the time. It wasn’t a big deal.

CLAIRE. Why? Why.

BILLIE. We lived together.

CLAIRE. That doesn’t make sense.

BILLIE. We’d been a couple for three years. We lived together for a year… .

CLAIRE. No.

BILLIE. I’m not making this up.

CLAIRE. Why didn’t you say something?

BILLIE. I haven’t left your side in seven months.

CLAIRE. I just thought you felt guilty.

BILLIE. For what?

CLAIRE. That it didn’t happen to you. We were riding together.

BILLIE. I felt guilty for a long time. I still do. I re-lived every second of our bike ride that day. Kept thinking of places I could have passed you, could have turned us down a different path. But that’s not why I haven’t

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