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Unfortunately, everyone leaving was going north,
so I had to reluctantly resign myself that I would be
spending the night.
When it was time for everyone to settle down for
the night the carved meeting house was transformed
into a large sleeping dormitory. Clean sheets covered
the mattresses that lined the room and a pillow lay at
the head of each.

Communal sleeping with strangers, I never would
have imagined myself ever being caught in a situation
such as this. There was about thirty of us. Aroha was
on the mattress to my right and fell asleep pretty much
as soon as her head hit the pillow.
I lay there staring up at the ornately carved ceiling
then glanced over as someone was settling down onto
the empty mattress to my left.

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