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The incessant buzz pierced through to her consciousness. Since she was sleeping on her side facing the obnoxious alarm clock, she had only to crack open an eye to see the time. 6:45 AM. Pulling her hand from under her pillow, she slapped at the top of the small black box until she was rewarded with silence. She sighed and rolled over. Ten seconds passed before the alarm she’d set on her computer, complete with a CD of a famous British rock band, blasted from the office. She groaned and rolled to her back, blinking up at the ceiling. Feeling a bit sticky from the already humid weather, despite the air conditioning, she couldn’t relate to the lyrics of, “They came from the land of ice and snow”.
Knowing she had a lot to do, hence the back up alarm in the room across the hall, Courtney f
