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Esch barges in on Skeet in the bathroom because she has to urinate badly. She sees Skeet observing himself in the mirror, tracing the cuts on his torso. He got them while climbing recklessly out of the barn window to flee. He tells Esch that he put hydrogen peroxide on his wounds “from China’s bottle” because that is what he uses to clean her wounds after a fight. While helping Skeet wrap a bandage around himself, Esch has a flashback to the times that their father and mother would go swimming in the Bay of Angels. Their mother had caught a shark once, and had “coaxed it to death” (85); they ate it that evening for dinner.
Skeet comments that Esch “ran slow yesterday” (86). Esch vaguely denies it as she can’t tell him the reason. She admits that she hasn’t “said it to [herself] yet, out loud. Just chased it around in [her] head since [she] saw the lines” (86). Esch, in private, inspects her body closely in the mirror to see if she is showing.
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