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Night

A man once asked me, in the middle of a drifting conversation, “How long do you sleep in a day— if you ever sleep at all?” I looked at him, searching for a polite reply but found none that fit the weight of his question. So I simply said, “I do sleep— just like any normal soul.” But deep inside, I wondered— what does normal sleep even feel like to a restless mind?

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