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sniffled. She wiped her nose with the back of her hand and Pearl cringed at the sight of her sister’s grimy, bit-back fingernails and all the city dirt that was caked up beneath them. “I might do a lot of fucked-up shit,” Diamond continued, “but it’s all aimed at me. Never at y’all. I swear. No matter how low I get, I never get too low to remember how much I love my family.”
    Pearl sighed and took her sister into her arms as she heard a familiar melody playing in her head.
    Diamond and Pearl, two hearts, one world.
I love you my Diamond.
I love you my Pearl
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    Pearl had held on to those words while she was in college, because over the next three years Diamond continued to sink lower and lower. In her senior year Pearl got a call from a guy namedVince who used to give her crazy-good head back when they were in high school. Vince was cute and had a stacked body like he inhaled weights for breakfast, but he was short up top under the cap, and would never make it much further than the block.
    Still, he was a cool guy who was bent on Pearl, and he had spent years trying to get in her panties. But after giving birth to Sasha, Pearl was done fuckin’ losers, so the most she would let Vince do back then was suck her titties a little bit, and a few times he’d pulled her panties to the side and licked her pussy gently until she came, but she’d always maintained control and sent him on his way with a big-ass bulge busting outta his pants. Vince had stayed in touch with her all throughout college, and now he was calling to tell her that her twin sister was raking in big doe pole dancing at a new strip joint that had just opened up.
    “Yo, Diamond is the main attraction over at a spot called Club Humpz,” he told Pearl. “Her stripper name is N’Vee and that jawn is so hot she got her own fuckin’ set, yo! Niggahs gotta drop top dollas just to get a peek in the door, for real. I sweated five hunnerd on that gorgeous phat ass the other night, and if you anywhere near as fine butt-naked as ya sister is … shit I wish I had’a got them panties off in high school.”
    Pearl was worried about her sister, but she wasn’t about to share this latest bit of news with her mother or her father. Zeta would only cry and wanna bust up in the strip club and drag Diamond home, and Irish would get mad and try to use all his street pull and political clout to try and shut the whole operation down.
    Even though hearing shit like this hurt, there was really nothing Pearl could do to help Diamond. She had learned that a long time ago. There had been too many nights of tracking her sister down and pulling her out of whatever little drug spot she was holed up in, or sitting in the car while Irish rolled up on some niggah and cracked him in the dome and snatched Diamond outof his lap, to even count. The girl wasn’t just a hopeless junkie, it was the ballers and the playas that Diamond was addicted to as well. The street life. The whips and the bling. The status and the sex. Those were the things that called out to Diamond’s heart, so when Pearl had earned enough credits to graduate only three years after she started college, and her sister was nowhere to be found on her special day, she was hurt but she wasn’t surprised.
    Irish had driven the family down to Georgia in his spanking-new Caddy, and as they stood outside the large auditorium he took his daughter in his arms and held her close. “Daddy’s Pearl. I can’t even describe how proud I am right now. You did it, baby. You did it.”
    Irish had kissed his daughter’s forehead before continuing. “And just so you know, Diamond came by yesterday and said she didn’t have nothing decent to wear to your graduation, so I gave her a few dollars. She was supposed to buy some clothes and meet us at the house late last night, but she never showed up. We waited as long as we could, and I even swung by all the little cuts I know she likes to hang out in, but ain’t nobody seen