At the start of their wonderful book Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives you Life (Paulist Press, 1995) the Linns (Dennis, Sheila Fabricant and Matthew) tell the story of the children who were orphaned and left to starve during the Second World War. Many of those who were rescued and placed in refugee camps were discovered to be unable to sleep at night. Eventually the helpers discovered that, if the children were given a piece of bread to hold, they were able to go to sleep in the guarantee that they would find nourishment in the morning. Quoted by Paula Gooder in her Lent Course - Lentwise (Church House)
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