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“Is that why you are not a General now? I would love it if you were a General.”
“I’d love it too,” the Colonel said. “But maybe not with the same intensity.”
“Would you try to sleep, please, to please me?”
“Yes,” the Colonel said.
“You see, I thought that if you slept you might get rid of them, just being asleep.”
“Yes. Thank you very much,” he said.
There was nothing to it, gentlemen. All a man need ever do is obey.