He liked to get up at dawn and row on the Charles River near his home.

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But day after day, she kept on waking up at dawn to catch the bus, arriving at work before anyone else, giving her best without complaint or regret.

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His grandmother stepped up, waking every morning before dawn to get on that bus to that job at the bank.

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When Dawn Giugliano woke up from an hour-long nap on a beach in Puerto Rico last year, the 27-year-old Long Islander claims she got quite a surprise: The metal ring attaching the cups of her Victoria's Secret bikini top had seared a mark in her chest.

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At Poovar Beach, which is located a mile or two from Hawa, lights from hundreds of boats blink on the horizon at dawn, while men hike up their lunghis (garments similar to sarongs) to sit and wait for the work to come in.

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By dawn, I'd wake up to the soft gurgle of the fountain on the Place Edmond Rostand.

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It may not have been like 30 years ago, when the cool kids who would shape the future met each other Monday nights at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A or, later, sobering up with blintzes and coffee at the Kiev as dawn broke.

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