I tried to push up the voluminous sleeve, failed, and settled for pulling the neck of the shirt off my shoulder to display my vaccination scar.

"Not unless you mean my vaccination scar," said Moxie.

On the upper right hip is a three-quarters-of-an-inch old, healed vaccination scar.

A couple of old scars and lots of stretch marks were gone; so was my vaccination scar, and my skin was a little oilier, almost shiny.

"She had a vaccination scar."

There, just above her vaccination scar, was a red dot, the mark of a hypodermic needle.

He had a mole on his left shoulder, and a vaccination scar on his left arm.

"I wanted to see whether you had a vaccination scar."

The vaccination scar had faded with time, but was still prominent enough to be detectable; a roughly circular patch of pitted skin, perhaps a half-inch in diameter.

She touched the great swell of her own upper arm, where the small vaccination scar lay hidden beneath the puff of white muslin.