Today dragged by. For some reason my shoulder seemed to hurt a lot more when I tried to get to sleep, though I did sink into my first really deep sleep on the train later in the night. Of course, then when I woke up two hours later I had, initially, no idea at all where I was, except that my bed was definitely moving. Earthquake! I sat up, intending to run to the door, and, even more surprisingly, the door was right in front of my nose. Then, fortunately, I woke up all the way. I made the mistake of getting off the train at a 45-minute stop in Kansas City, Missouri to try to find a pay phone. As far as I could tell, there were no pay phones anywhere in the station, and
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