I woke up to the darkest darkness I’ve ever seen. It had been this way since the electricity was cut at 10pm the night before. I’d barely slept, kept awake by the knowledge that only a mosquito net was separating me from the 3 palmetto bugs (think cockroaches the size of mice) who were sharing my cabin. The grasshopper and half dozen merely thumb-sized roaches weren’t even relevant.

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