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Chapter IV: Bam Bam

All the chapters are available here:  https://aylahurst.blogspot.com/p/no-mans-land.html All the story is available in Spanish here:  https://aylahurst.blogspot.com/p/alaskan-bush-people.html Ever since I arrived in Browntown I hadn’t needed sleeping pills: work and money always kept me awake, spinning in bed with my eyes wide open until dawn. In Alaska I didn’t have those worries, I didn’t have to discuss contracts or meet deadlines, there were no agendas or budgets ... I recognize that the first days, sleeping was a challenge: not only was all my frustration for being useless and a failure, the discomfort of Matt's bed, the cottage and the noises of the northern night prevented me from getting better sleep. I didn’t know exactly how long I had been there, whether it had been days, weeks or months ... But when I started working side by side with the Brown family, I felt so exhausted at nightfall that I fell asleep almost instantly to lie on the bed. Matt's cabin was smal...