country. And we fell asleep in each otherâs arms with the window blowing cool winter air into the room and the sleep was strongly horrible with the jumps and turns of bodies on small mattress ⦠we woke several times each during the night and in the morning after six hours of half sleep we rose at seven and he sat on the edge of the mattress whispering into my ear and nibbling and smooch in my throat and I asked him if he had difficulty sleeping and he said, Yeah but I understand it is because we are not used to sleeping together and the bed is small and much later he sheepishly said that it was the first time in a year or years that anyone has slept with him overnight in that room ⦠he jumped up and so did I hustling on our clothes and rubbing each otherâs backs and shoulders and warming up to the day ⦠the first light of dawn creeping over the roofs and behind the heavy gray curtain of imminent rain.