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Dr. Naysleep. My mind immediately jumps to the worst case scenario as I

glance at my ringing phone, seeing that my mother is calling me.

It's after two in the morning, which can't mean anything good.

I'm awake nights, having just moved back from Australia to be closer to my parents as they struggle with health problems.

But I'm still working on Australia time.

So I stay up nights and sleep during the day until I can figure something else out.

Really, I don't mind staying up nights.

I've always been able to operate on as little as four hours of sleep a day.

And I've always liked the quiet of the night

and early morning hours.

I push away from my desk and stand,

scooping my phone up, dreading the news I'm about to get.

My dad is probably dead from a heart attack,

or maybe he's had a stroke.

He's had high blood pressure for a long time,

and he's pretty overweight. I slide my thumb up the

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