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I am still half asleep, had a nice dream, and huddled in my warm bunk bed. The other children are outside. It feels good to be with my brothers and sisters, pretty sure my brothers are playing soccer again. Sunrise is already peering through the skylight. How could children in the old times wake without their brothers and sisters?