She had gone to bed only to wake up hours later because her neck felt as if it were on fire.

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So a few hours later, I wake up -- and I'm feeling terrible.

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Sooner or later the American people will wake up.

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Some 170 years later, it's time to wake up.

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In my own opinion, I truly believe that the country has had a huge wake-up call as regards to the have-now pay later attitude that many people have adopted as the norm.

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After the fall of France in 1940, Mrs Wake became a French Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy - setting up escape routes and sabotaging German installations, saving hundreds of Allied lives.

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She listened, told me she could see how stressed I was, and then, even though the next day was my morning with the kids, she offered to wake up with them at 6 a.m. while I slept a little later.

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