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Have you ever woken up in the wee hours of the night to find that you're gripped by fears and anxieties that just

didn't exist in the light of day. You can lie there awake in bed in your comfortable home,

maybe even next to a loved one, and find your thoughts circling like persistent

vultures.

And then the morning rolls around, and it's almost impossible to recreate the sense of

foreboding that existed just a few hours earlier. If this is a

foreign concept to you, count yourself lucky, but it's not an uncommon

experience, maybe just one that not a lot of people talk about.

This episode of Nocturne is a little different than usual, and that you're going to hear

two different stories on the same theme, The Fun House Mirror that is 3 a.m. The first story is an excerpt from the lovely

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