(From one of those late-night phone calls) “I shouldn’t tell you this, Mikey, but sometimes I have no power to stop the truth from slipping out”  she whispered into the phone. “Wherever the night finds me, I go to bed early. If I have to sleep alone, sleep without you. I want to get the night over with as quickly as I can.” There was silence for a few seconds.  “Is there a song in there somewhere?” she asked softly. “I keep thinking there must be but I can’t find the melody .” She paused again and just as I started to speak, said “Don’t say anything, please. The truth…