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A woman, hidden in shadow, lights a cigarette. Her hand seems rough and orange. She thinks about cigarettes. They are supposed to be deadly. She wishes that the cigarettes would kill her. She doesn't get high from a cigarette, but the act of smoking seems normal. It makes her feel like a normal person. She wishes that she were dead.

The woman picks up the phone to call a man named Mulligan, identifying herself as Rainie Blackwell. Rainie is depressed. She tells Mulligan that the previous day, she couldn't stop crying. Then she asks whether her check is coming. Mulligan tells her that it's not the last Wednesday of the month yet. She asks Mulligan what he looks like, and he describes himself, a normal guy. She tells him that she looks like the photographs in her file, and he says...