Summary

Marty and Ted arrive at the YMCA. The first thing Ted notices is the saggy skinned penises of the old men in the locker-room. The two men swim and Ted notices that the slow, medium, and fast lanes are all slow. When they finish swimming, Ted becomes uncomfortable dressing in front of his father. Marty forces him to anyway, and the two men look at each other's bodies. Ted notices the damage that age and cancer has caused on Marty's body. The two men hug in the locker-room.

Chapter 32 is an excerpt from "The Double Mint Man." The main character has sex with Maria and fantasizes with her about a reality where everyone else has died in a nuclear holocaust except for them.

Ted is woken up by a whimpering in the apartment. He discovers that Marty is the source of the noise...