The Little Lamp That Waits Up

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Every night, when the house goes quiet, one small lamp stays awake. It is not brave, exactly — it is just willing. It knows some children wake in the dark and need something to look at that is not the ceiling. So it glows, softly, all night. It does not ask why you woke up. It does not tell anybody. In the morning it goes to sleep in the sunshine, quite proud of itself, and it does it all again the next night. If you ever wake in the dark, look for your lamp, or the line of light under the door, or the little green dot on the clock. Something in the house is always awake with you.