This was, without question, the high point of their lives. It would take years for Chanel to understand why things fell apart. It was not obvious, in that blinding moment, that money could be useful only if they knew how to spend it. To think it would bring salvation was like asking a set of keys to drive a car. Money could not erase the past. When customers took a seat in Supreme’s chair at the barbershop, they saw a pair of hands expertly at work. They did not see the boy who, at age seven, had learned that very skill by cutting his brothers’ hair while his parents were high. What money
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