There are nights when you go to bed and fall immediately into a deep sleep, not waking til morning. And then there are those other nights we dread — nights that follow a long day’s work, when we are bone weary and longing for sleep.

Such was the night of the possum invasion.

Innocently, we went to bed to sleep the sleep of the weary. And we probably had been deeply asleep for about 20 minutes when it began.

It seemed as though the high-pitched barking came from far away, but as I

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