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A friend of mine suggests that "women’s bodies are programmed to awaken in the middle of the night so they can stoke the fire." Even Shakespeare’s Macbeth entreats a physician to cure his wife’s insomnia: "Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Race out the written troubles of the brain; And with-some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuft bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart."