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                              The Insomniac...It's 4 a.m. as I write this and 
                              will probably be 5 a.m. before I post it. I've been 
                              an insomniac since before the war. My sleeping hours 
                              are strange and disconnected - rather like a cat. 
                              During the war it was almost impossible to sleep. 
                              The nights were full of bombing. We'd stay up, huddled 
                              together in a room, listening to the planes and 
                              explosions, sometimes venturing outside to search 
                              the horizon for signs of burning. After the war, 
                              the looting and pillaging kept everyone up. We'd 
                              take turns staying up and listening for prowlers 
                              or break-ins.Now, sleep doesn't come very easily.  |