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Monday, September 18, 2006

(watching TV with mom in the guest bedroom around 8 pm; commercial for Lunestra comes on!)

Sophia (excitedly): Mama, mama! That’s the medicine that I want to take that my dad won’t let me take!!!

Mama: Lunestra!?

Sophia: Yes, can you believe that he won’t let me take it!?

Mama (wondering what is going on because Sophia always falls asleep before her head even hits the pillow): Uh, that sounds right to me. You’re a kid and you sleep well. It doesn’t seem like the kind of thing you should be taking at all.

Sophia (dramatically): But, Mama, I lay awake for HOURS . . . I don’t fall asleep until MIDNIGHT!

Mama (skeptically): Oh, really?

8:30 pm: As with every other night, Sophia is sound asleep.