For as long as you can remember you have been able to see numbers above people’s heads. The numbers count down the amount of time each person has left to live. Over the years, you have learned not to say anything as it only tends to upset people. One day you meet a man whose numbers are counting upwards. There is nothing special about him, as far as you can tell, but his number is going up instead of down.

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