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Quote #10
He is shuddering and shaking and gasping. He has kept all this white noise inside him, and now some of it is coming out. His face is newborn raw, his arms wrap around his body. I move over to him and hug him tight. I tell him that he's brave. (24.76)
Paul's description of Tony's face as "newborn raw" could be taken in two ways. The more literal interpretation is that he's crying as hard as a newborn, so his face is the same shade of red, but the figurative reading is that the relief on Tony's face is so visible it's like he's shed his skin.