#chapt 1

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Image 1: late at night. just past midnight.

Image 2: Ronnie hears something outside.

Image 3: the moment he steps out the door- / -light blinds him from above.

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Image 1: Ronnie’s troubles worsen by the day. His stomach swells and distends alarmingly, and he shuts himself off from the world to hide this new deformity. 

Image 2: he ignores the knocks on the door, pretends he isn’t home. / he can’t let them see him like this.

Image 3: he needs help. / but his neighbours cannot get in to his locked trailer.

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Image 1: Nrs. Jones: Mr. Mullin? Dr. Blount is ready to see you now. / Mullin: what happened to Dr. Dixon? / Nrs. Jones: retired, hon. ‘bout a year ago.

Image 2: Ronnie felt certain there was something wrong with him, and the doctor would find it.

Image 3: he waited in anxious silence for the verdict - such persistent symptoms, for so long, couldn’t be good.