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After 16 years of living as if tomorrow didn't exist, here he is thrust into a life he was never trained for, subject to norms he never absorbed. Now Thomas is no longer a butterfly; he has to look ahead, get a permanent contract, think about retirement, wonder if he wants kids, book vacations in advance, ask people "and how's work going?", listen to his friends talk about real estate capital gains and pretend to care...
Word is that now he must become a man, a real one.
Well, at least that's what people try to make him believe.
Thomas wonders if life wasn't simpler when he was sick.