Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dangerous. Right now he lost control. We have to get away from him, but he's then not gonna have anybody. He broke the thermometer of the apartment and the boiler is becoming into flames. I don't know if this letter will reach you. I can't sleep. He screams out of control. Everyone in the house is awake at 12:30. I don't know if we'll ever sleep today. I just can't hold on too long. Every day I think of leaving a message to some friends and teachers and throwing myself from the school...
Rose's apartment has two rooms, the kitchen and an all-purpose room where the seven of them sleep. Benjamin, Daisy and Sabrina sleep in the bed. Davey, Joey and Dino sleep on the floor. Rose takes the couch. They have no phone; the bathtub leaks; the ceiling is splotched with water stains. Yet this is the best place they've ever had. For a month before this, Rose and the children lived in a car, and bathing was carried out in Rose's girlfriend's apartment. Compared with then, Rose says, the sky's the limit these days...
...prove I'm able to be a fit mother. I got jobs. I was a cashier in Pathmark. I worked from 11 at night to 8 in the morning, and then I took care of Vinnie's brother's kids, which meant I got maybe two, three hours' sleep a night. But I proved something to the judge, and I got my kids back...
...Laing, the favorite shrink of student rebels in the '60s, retains his romantic opinion of schizophrenics as brave victims who are defying a cruel culture. He suggested that many people are diagnosed as schizophrenic simply because they sleep during the day and stay awake at night. Schizophrenia did not exist until the word was invented, he said. That was too much for Judd | Marmor, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association. He called the panel a "travesty." At a later panel, a woman in the audience asked Laing how he would deal with schizophrenics. Laing bobbed and weaved...
...appears first as a silhouette on the African horizon, the dying sun behind him, the very emblem of romantic heroism, standing easy in a lost world. She appears at first in dream-tossed sleep, reinventing him and reimagining the landscape that shaped their love in ways that are perhaps immeasurable...