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A Hard Day’s Nap

You write about food, you get hungry. You write about naps, you get a little fuzzy. But there’s work to do!

A nap, according to Winston Churchill, is “the refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts 20 minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.”

I am tempted to say, “My vital forces and I will be back in twenty minutes,” but there’s work to do! Did I say that already?

By work I

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