Here, Larkin tells host Michaela Majoun a great story about her experience at a haunted bed-and-breakfast in Western Massachusetts that inspired her to write "Walking in My Sleep, " which she then sings live.

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His own story -- an immigrants' son, adopted and then disowned by one of the richest families in Perugia, suffering from fugue states and sleep-walking -- makes him one of the more interesting characters in the case.

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Like chewing gum and walking, I could type lecture notes in my sleep.

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Mutesi wakes at 5 a.m. every morning to "begin a two-hour trek through Katwe to fill a jug with drinkable water, walking through lowland that is often so severely flooded by Uganda's torrential rains that many residents sleep in hammocks near their ceilings to avoid drowning, " he wrote.

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