She has trouble walking and spends most of her day on her bed, talking to friends and relatives on the phone.

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Yet after losing weight, she stopped snoring, went off her asthma medication, felt less pain in her knee while walking and threw out the acid reflux medication she used to take before bed.

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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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