It was still dark, just before dawn.

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Hitting speeds well and beyond a hundred miles per hour we dashed through the dark to make the border by dawn.

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The boy had been one of those gifts, brought home to the hill, stolen from his crib in the dark of the night and presented to her by dawn.

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The best part of the day was getting up at dawn and going down to the cool gray kitchen, the dark garden waiting at the door like some curious beast strayed in from the fields, a casual attentiveness in the coming light that seemed ready to include me, as it did everything else, in a soft, foreign stillness.

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It was still dark outside when I got up, but by the time I went down, dawn was breaking over Tolly.

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The remaining rodents were also exposed to a cycle, but the dark was replaced with a dim glow equivalent to the twilight at the first flickers of dawn.

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