On the Thursday after that game I woke up in the morning and knew something was wrong.

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"After he woke up I was crying, I couldn't control myself, and he said, 'If you love me don't cry, '" Omar recalls, eyes slightly widening, acknowledging our amazement at his brother's strength.

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One morning I woke up after a day in the hills and I felt terrible, worse that you would after any hangover.

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When I woke up after the operation to remove the piece of cane, I was curious only about the coal fire opposite my bed and the taste of hospital ice cream.

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However, there was one morning, during the height of the financial crisis, after my son was born, when I woke up and looked in the mirror and saw that half my right eyebrow was gone.

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After six years in nursing, unsatisfied with the career choice I had made, I woke up to a different kind of fear: The fear of becoming like the other no-risk nurses tired, burned out and old before their time.

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