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A CRICKET BALL
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A CRICKET BALL

5 Feb 23

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Dear Readers, my dispatches will always be free and open to everyone. I am unable to use my hands and I’m writing, via dictation, with the help of my family. If you could become a paid subscriber and support me, it’d mean so much.

Last night was a bad one. A bit of a standoff at one-thirty in the morning with a nurse. I wanted more sleeping pills and he insisted I had had enough already.

Of course I have my own stash here in Rome, but I do not have access to it. And if I started mixing this stuff, I guess I could go up like kerosene. The nurse suggested I should lie still with my eyes closed. It sounded like good advice. I tried it for two or three hours, but found my mind was working faster and faster.

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