The narrator, a thirty-year-old bachelor, falls asleep and wakes up to find that his ex-wife is with her son. He tells her that he still misses her, and she tells him that he is a "clean-shaven man" . She tells him to go home, and he agrees. The narrator tells us that his roommate gave him the optical drive when he graduated from college, and that he has been using it ever since. The doctor says that he can be discharged the next day, and the narrator is excited.