ABANDONED. Plot: Older man who wants to be young again

[Leslie]

• High-level plot surrounded an older man who was feeling the aches and pains of aging who is then approached by a stranger who offers him an opportunity....
• Read story in late 90's early 2000's
• Had checked it out from my local library
• Book was super short, maybe less than 100/150 pages
• I feel like the book cover was pink, but that could be totally wrong
• Genres: Fiction, sci-fi, short books

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• Man is older
• Ends up paying to trade in his older body for a younger one
• New body reinvigorates him and he spends time doing a bunch of young person type activities
• In the end, he misses his wife
• She has no idea who he is since he is now in a new body
• He tries to give the old body back and return to his original body
• Can't find stranger who offered him the initial trade and building where he went to transition to new body is empty
• He is now stuck in the young body

[Rainbowheart]

Seconds?

[Jim]

I don't know of a short story like that, but it might have been based on Rod Serling's Twilight Zone episode "Trade-ins". I think they made some TZ books, so it could have been in that. Here's the Wikipedia link to the TZ episode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tra...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Some suggestions that have been made in other body swap threads:

The Body
Ringing the Changes
Chateau d'If and Other Stories
GURPS Warehouse 23
Hopscotch

[Rosa]

Sure sounds like Seconds to me.

[Leslie]

It may be Seconds. Definitely not the Twilight Zone. Will comb thru the other suggestions to see if any might be it. Thanks!

[Kate]

Leslie ~~
Let us know if Seconds turned out to be your book! We crave closure -- and we want to know if we should keep looking.

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Good luck!

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Leslie (OP) last posted in the group in January 2019.