The Withdrawal Method

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"1 SHOULD PROBABLY tell you," she said, swallowing coffee, "that I'm about to lose my skin."

"What? Is that an expression?"

"No, not an expression. People's skin cells rejuvenate every seven years. Usually it's gradual, but I've been using something to make it happen all in one go."

"What?" He put down his knife and fork. There was something suddenly disquieting about the idea of bacon. "How does this work? What do you use?"

"It's a topical cream," she said.

"Topical? Do you mean like up-to-date? Current?"

"What are you talking about?"

"No, but this cream — where do you get it? Do other people do this?"

Her arms, those two pink Ls that began at the sleeves of her T-shirt and ended clutching cutlery on the tabletop, seemed normal enough: not peeling, not cracking, not even dry. "I got it at a specialty store. It's — "

"Is this going to happen like a snake? Like you'll just drop your skin and then it'll be sitting there in the shape of you?"

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