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Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 7:58 p.m.

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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\n after everyone else was asleep, it felt like I had always lived\n there. I liked that it felt that way. As my oldest son said when\n he was three, \u201cIt feels as perfect as right.\u201d I knew where the\n hardwood floors creaked, and I avoided those spots so I\n wouldn\u2019t wake the baby who, like me, was a light sleeper. My\n wife and my five-year-old, he of the aphorism above, slept the\n sleep of the dead. I could drop a refrigerator on the creaky\n spots and they wouldn't stir....\n

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narrated by Ian McCrorie
\n 2023
\n 4 minutes 24 seconds\n

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