A woman from Canada wrote to me, noting the chapter and page number where she had read a sentence that she said she would never want to lose. Her brain had been damaged from radiation, she wrote; she had not been able to concentrate because she fell asleep so often. She felt isolated but did not wish to seek out others. “This is something I have long considered and now I think I have my answer,” she said of the sentence. “Perhaps I will never sleep again.”
