[It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.]

To think, this year I will grow
into a body you never will

have touched.

Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just ­sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.