On Any Given Day

The following interview was conducted with Emma Chicheck. In the summer of 2018, a fifteen year old student came into a health clinic in the suburban town of Charlotte, outside Cleveland, Ohio with a sexually transmitted version of a proto-virus called pv414, which had recently been identified as a result of contaminated batches of genetic material associated with the telemerase therapy used in rejuvenation. In the near future, seventy year olds can be made to seem to be twenty again, but at what cost. And what does it mean to be young the first time, in a world where some people are young the second time?