When our narrator, Quentin, is nine, he and his next door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, are playing together in a park when they find a dead man. Kids these days… when we were that age, we weren't playing with dead people.
Quentin freaks out, taking two steps back, but Margo, like a young Paula Abdul, takes two steps forward.
Margo touches the dead dude's foot while Quentin continues to lose it.
He grabs her and tells her that they should leave, and they run to their bikes and ride home.