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You discover one day\u2014while everyone else is doing\u00a0whatever it is that makes\u00a0them happy\u2014that you can almost pop one of the bones in your hand\u00a0right out\u00a0of the skin. It\u2019s\u00a0awesome. First, you practice in secret, when you\u2019re bored or exasperated by\u00a0school.\u00a0But one day, you are practicing out in the open when someone notices\u00a0the little bit of white\u00a0sticking out, and they say, Wow, how cool, and they ask\u00a0you to do it again. Look at this guy,\u00a0they say\u2014when formerly you were\u00a0ignored or marginalized or made to feel you were odd or\u00a0would at any rate never\u00a0to amount to much\u2014and it occurs to you: maybe you\u2019re on to something.<\/p>\n

You\u00a0get good at it, the bone popping, and in college you realize there\u2019s a whole\u00a0department devoted to the study of it: how they did it in the old days, how\u00a0it became different\u00a0when the boats came to North America. Yet, on the musty\u00a0college campus, everything seems\u00a0safe and no one\u2019s trying hard enough. In fact,\u00a0it\u2019s difficult to find anyone doing a good or brave\u00a0job of bone popping.<\/p>\n

Eventually,\u00a0you find places in the big city\u2014loft buildings, various dark caf\u00e9s\u2014where\u00a0people gather. Most can pop one or two hand bones, but a few can do their whole\u00a0arm bone or an\u00a0entire leg. Some of these people are actually making a living\u00a0doing this. They get contracts to\u00a0spend years on one big bone popping. Some win\u00a0awards, or fellowships. But no matter how\u00a0good you get, one old timer says,\u00a0never remove your heart. Then you\u2019re dead.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0you practice, getting good, refining your technique. You can artfully remove\u00a0one or\u00a0two bones whenever you want, in almost any setting. Sometimes you rig up\u00a0a webcam, so people\u00a0on the Internet can watch. It takes more time to remove\u00a0your rib cage or your entire hip and all of\u00a0a sudden you realize you\u2019ve been\u00a0trying for four or five years to remove your entire lower body,\u00a0just once, but\u00a0the market is tough and your agent is trying and maybe this year you\u2019ll get a\u00a0contract.<\/p>\n

Even\u00a0with various modest successes, your wife\u2014not a bone popper\u2014is becoming\u00a0tired\u00a0of all the talk: about other bone poppers, how much they make, how this\u00a0one guy you know has\u00a0a yearly deal, doesn\u2019t matter how many bones he pops,\u00a0the people who pay him just think he\u2019s\u00a0that good, he pops a bone once, maybe\u00a0while he\u2019s in Cuba, and bam<\/em>! That\u2019s enough for a year\u2019s\u00a0pay. Why can\u2019t you do\u00a0that? your wife says one night, after some wine. You admit to her: every\u00a0time\u00a0you pop a bone, it takes something out of you. You both get quiet.<\/p>\n

Weeks\u00a0and months and years go by: oh, sure, when you\u2019re on a roll, you don\u2019t feel\u00a0pain,\u00a0you can spend an entire day just working on one little facet of a good\u00a0bone pop, practicing over\u00a0and over to get it right. But you have less time, are\u00a0a father, and you look at your little girl, and\u00a0you find yourself hoping she\u00a0aspires to something else. Her skin covers her tiny bones and you\u00a0think:\u00a0anything but bone popping for this one.<\/p>\n

Because\u00a0it takes its toll. You try to remove a bone from your body, and the hole gets a\u00a0little ragged, and then you start breaking off pieces of yourself you didn\u2019t\u00a0mean to share, things\u00a0don\u2019t always heal, pieces won\u2019t go back in, and maybe all\u00a0these years, you\u2019ve been doing damage\u00a0for the sake of what?<\/p>\n

You\u00a0do a good pop, and it\u2019s over. Just an entertainment, a little amazing moment,\u00a0when\u00a0people saw you could do something they couldn\u2019t. You took the time to\u00a0focus, to reveal a part of\u00a0yourself that maybe should\u2019ve stayed unseen.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0lawyer friend laughs: I could probably pop any time I want, he says, but I\u2019d\u00a0rather\u00a0make three hundred dollars an hour doing some suing.<\/p>\n

Sometimes\u00a0you do a pop that is still great, one that reminds you why you started, why\u00a0you kept at it, but on bad days you compare yourself to friends who have real jobs.\u00a0Younger, you\u00a0thought they were crazy. But, oh, to be a doctor or a nurse or\u00a0maybe an X-ray tech. Nothing\u00a0personal, just real stuff, you know?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u00a0so bad lately, you find yourself getting a little jealous of the people who\u00a0merely study\u00a0or are out in the field, looking for evidence of the first pop.\u00a0You\u2019re even thinking of giving it up\u00a0altogether, getting a Ph.D. or something,\u00a0becoming that guy who doesn\u2019t really pop anymore, who\u00a0does a conference now and\u00a0then, where you don\u2019t even have to do a real pop, just talk about a\u00a0great one you\u00a0did back in the day.\u00a0(That poltergeist\u00a0feel of a room filled with people who want\u00a0nothing more than to learn to pop a\u00a0bone out of their skin.)<\/p>\n

Bone\u00a0popping: if you really commit your life to it, it\u2019s mostly pretty lonely, all that\u00a0looking inside yourself, trying to find the weak spot where something\u2019s loose,\u00a0where you can get\u00a0it out, if you try hard enough. Don\u2019t think about the\u00a0consequences and you can put bone popping\u00a0above all other things. Some people\u00a0do it well, for their whole lives. Most of us struggle. The\u00a0whole thing can be\u00a0gross, honestly. Yet it\u2019s not clear if I can ever stop.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Deuel<\/a>‘s first book, <\/em>Friday Was the Bomb, is a collection of essays that will be published in May 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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