For the dark hours when you dare not close your eyes, it's the no-sleep podcast.

Featuring stories from reddit.com's no-sleep forum.

Join us as the sleepless hours take pass.

Our first tale is entitled The Stairs and the Doorway, written by Eric Dodd and read by

David Cummings.

I don't feel like I'm a nosy person, no more nosy than the next guy.

I just have what my mom would call an unhealthy amount of curiosity.

I was the kid who climbed to the top of the big oak in the backyard just to see what was

in the crow's nest.

I was the kid who dug a hole in the backyard so deep that I hit groundwater because I

was convinced there was a cave under the house and I wanted to see it.

My folks aren't dirt poor but they're pretty close.

They're part of that missing middle of America.

The people who work 40 hours a week until they die with no savings to speak of.

I got my first job at a horse stable when I was 14.

It didn't last very long.

I knew I needed to get a job because I knew we needed the money so I bounced around

for the next few years, washing dishes, waiting tables until I graduated high school.

Stop was really tough on me about college.

He never went, nobody in his family had.

So there were a few fights about where I would go after school.

It was a huge shock to me when, just after graduation, he drove me down to the uni.

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