“You can sleep when you’re in heaven.”

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When I was very little, my mother was trying to take a nap and I wanted her to play with me. She tried to explain to me that she was very tired and needed some rest and I stood in the doorway of her bedroom and responded, “You can sleep when you’re in heaven.” She paused for a moment… and got up and played with me.

For a long time, I felt reallyembarrassedabout this little family story. When I was home on breaks from college and just wanted to be a total slug and sleep...