When you are on the sofa, and it's one a.m., and He Who Is Restless in the Night finds you there, you do not move. You pretend to sleep, but he is alert at this time of night. He sees your eyes, maybe, how they are open, and it occurs to you again, this time for the first time you're sure, though it seems you maybe have had this thought before, you cannot see without your eyes open. At this thought you lift your head. He does not ask you to get down from the sofa. He bends over you and touches your ears and kisses the top of your head, then moves off toward the stairway. You follow him with your open eyes. Your eyes are open. Then you step down from the sofa. You follow him to the stairs. You follow him up. Just to be near him.

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