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Alarm clock

Yes, you need to get up for work. Yes, you don't have the will power to do it of your own accord. And yes without it you would stay in bed until noon. But do you really have to be woken by a glass shattering noise that's worse than a crying baby, an airplane taking-off and Celine Dion's singing combined?

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