The only part of his body that hadn’t seemed to have been affected was his hair. Because the hair on his head had remained the same length while his head had gotten smaller, he looked shaggy and unkempt. Howard decided that he would ask Anita to cut his hair that night when she came home from work. he noticed that his fingernails seemed to have doubled in length overnight. He saw that the width of his nails at the cuticles had decreased in proportion to his fingers as well. Apparently his nails had been too wide for his fingers and he had grown entirely new fingernails from the diminished nail-bed to compensate. Since his old fingernails were still attached to the fingernails, he had ended up with long, delicately curved fingernails that would be the envy of any little girl.

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