Boy, it was amazing how good I felt. Even with no sauna the previous day.

And you know, I tried to replicate everything essential about that day, to ensure that my sense of ease would continue.

I ate similarly, moved similarly. Drank a little more, though, even though I didn't want to. (Felt I needed to.)

Yet even doing everything the same, I lost ground; was sliding backward.

Because what I could not replicate was the now-waning sense of another's touch.

Plus I had a mouse (at the very least).