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

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And it will wake me up out of a dead sleep.

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Curl up in bed, pull the shades and sleep like a dead man?

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It showed that rats, when totally deprived of sleep, would, after two or three weeks, drop dead.

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When buildings collapse, the dead are often found in groups, huddled in the same room where they sleep.

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