Here's the truth. I hardly ever have trouble sleeping. Where sleep is concerned, I am easily detached. Thought-less. When I awake in the morning, I pass through a phase that I lovingly call, "The Garbage Layer:" all the thoughts and worries and lists and...stuff-of-the-day. It's the stuff I left behind when slipping into sleep. I've come to realize that the garbage will be waiting for me in the morning so there's no need to carry it with me to the world of my dreams. I suppose that's a guy-thing though 20 assures me that he rarely sleeps through the night.

If I'm awake at night it's because Kerri has poked my shoulder, asking, "Are you up?" My thoughtless and detached male response is always, "Yes. Are you?"

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