"He would ask me why I would want to sleep with all my clothes on, so eventually I'd be stripped down to my underwear, " said the man, now 25.

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Another memory from the 1977 mayoral race had the candidate and me pacing the hall outside a Midtown hotel suite where Vice President Walter Mondale, who was scheduled to campaign with Mr. Koch, had apparently overslept, or decided to sleep in. (I'd been summoned to take the Vice President's luggage back to the airport and Air Force Two.) Whatever it was, Koch took the mix-up stoically.

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It was four a.m. in Los Angeles and I'd woken him from a dead sleep.

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The night before, I had fallen onto the floor in my sleep, something that hadn't happened since I'd first graduated from a crib to a bed and to prevent me from rolling out of it my parents had to set a pair of kitchen chairs at the side of the mattress.

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I'd stay in the room, eat, maybe watch a little TV, and go to sleep by myself.

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"First of all, I'd listen for weeks to memorize and really study what I'm hearing so I could sing it in my sleep, " she said of her preparation for the new album.

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