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And it’s me you hear when it goes off … come on now, sleepyhead.

“Morning, sleepyhead,” Dad said, spooning sugar into his coffee mug.

“Salaam alaikum, sleepyhead,” she says, and starts picking up my clothes from the floor.

He said he rid the staff of “sleepyheads and chair sitters” and had shooed away long-term guests.

Once again, for the sleepyheads in the back of the room, executive orders and health bureaucrat advisories are not laws — no, not even during a pandemic.