Around midnight, I fell asleep, but I had to keep getting up to pee.

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In bed I would lie on my back practicing until I fell asleep.

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If I fell asleep, the sound would become a lazy breeze rustling a tree, or a broom brushing the earth.

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By week two, it was my square metre its minute, evolving landscape that floated in my mind during those last, hallucinatory moments before I fell asleep.

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He would console me until I fell asleep.

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Then I fell asleep on the plane.

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It happened suddenly and I essentially fell asleep for about 2 days, before being taken to the ER.

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On our honeymoon, I was stoned and fell asleep.

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In Bedford, Iowa, Lena Rinehart, 65, missed part of the debate because she fell asleep--"When I get in my recliner, it doesn't take too long"--but she woke up soon enough to hear Gore's main theme of the night.

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After the impostress fell asleep (the dog in her arms, their breathing synchronous) I found myself searching through Rema's pale blue purse that smelled only very faintly of dog.

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