She sat up and shrugged the straps from her shoulders.

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The grass was making needle-like pricks through the thin material of her maroon scrubs, and she sat up, smoothing her matching V-neck over her chest and belly, feeling the familiar stab of self-consciousness as her hand rode over the unfashionable lumps.

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She believes it is time the technology blogging community sat up and took notice.

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Lakwena expressed these war-rules through Alice twice a day, at seven in the morning and seven at night, as she sat in a white robe on a fold-up chair in the middle of the camp.

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Angela Hornsby threw up her arms in frustration Monday as she sat at home watching a news anchor tell people to seek shelter underground.

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Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said it was not up to the presiding officer, who she also sat in the House of Lords too and liked that connection to the rest of the United Kingdom.

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We shook hands, learned a few things about each other and then she sat down, turned off her smart phone and asked if she could help finish setting up the room.

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