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Iris once told me that we have to close our eyes at night when we go to sleep so that the darkness doesn’t get in our heads.

I said, “But when we close our eyes it’s dark.”

“That’s a different kind of dark, Daddy. Everyone knows that.”

Hana when she was only two, putting her to bed for the night, rocking her to sleep, says with her eyes closed, already in dream: “A cricket in the desert, a cricket in the desert.”

Now she puts her headphones on and closes her eyes; no one else can hear the cricket’s song.