Story 75 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Years ago, when I would walk around my house late at night
after everyone else was asleep, it felt like I had always lived
there. I liked that it felt that way. As my oldest son said when
he was three, “It feels as perfect as right.” I knew where the
hardwood floors creaked, and I avoided those spots so I
wouldn’t wake the baby who, like me, was a light sleeper. My
wife and my five-year-old, he of the aphorism above, slept the
sleep of the dead. I could drop a refrigerator on the creaky
spots and they wouldn't stir....
2023
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