People ask why I stayed on nights so long. Nights are when the building goes quiet and the patients stop performing for their visitors. Someone at 3am will tell you what they're actually afraid of. You hold a hand, you fix the pillow, you make the tea nobody asked for. I was good at the tea.
I still can't sleep before two. John used to say I was the only person he knew who came home from work and started cooking breakfast for the neighbours.
