Summary

Chapter 7 – After a brief contemplation about how much he used to enjoy going grocery shopping with his mother before the accident, and after commenting that he never goes to the grocery store himself anymore because of how he looks, Sean describes his trip to the liquor store to pick up some candy: the liquor store first thing in the morning, he says, is fine for him to go to because very few people are there, and those who are there won’t be looking at anybody’s face. He buys his candy (having a twinge of memory as he passes the “dirty magazines”, but doesn’t say a memory of what) and then goes outside, where he encounters a pair of teenagers, Kevin and Steve, who ask what happened to his face – not angry, not grossed out, just out of what Sean...