Savages

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To Thom Walla.

On or off the ice.

“Going back to California,

So many good things around.

Don’t want to leave California,

The sun seems to never go down.”

—JOHN MAYALL, “CALIFORNIA”

SAVAGES

1

Fuck you.

2

Pretty much Chon’s attitude these days.

Ophelia says that Chon doesn’t have attitude, he has “baditude.”

“It’s part of his charm,” O says.

Chon responds that it’s a muy messed-up daddy who names his daughter after some crazy chick who drowns herself. That is some very twisted wish fulfillment.

It wasn’t her dad, O informs him, it was her mom. Chuck was 404 when she was born, so Paqu had it her own way and tagged the baby girl “Ophelia.” O’s mother, Paqu, isn’t Indian or anything, “Paqu” is just what O calls her.

“It’s an acronym,” she explains.

P.A.Q.U.

Passive Aggressive Queen of the Universe.

“Did your mother hate you?” Chon asked her this one time.

“She didn’t hate me,” O answered. “She hated having me because she got all fat and stuff—which for Paqu was five LBs. She popped me and bought a treadmill on the way home from the hospital.”

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