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When he was young—between the ages of eight and eleven, hovering on the brink of puberty —he used to have these dreams. The proper term for them, he has since learned, was night terrors, a common occurrence among children at the onset of adolescence. He would wake struck by the most profound sense of fear but found himself unable to remember what could possibly have caused it. And sometimes later he remembered the dreams, but they were just that—dreams, distant and distinctly removed from reality. It was mostly the fear that he remembered, sharp and clear as a cold knife against the skin.