Many star athletes from impoverished backgrounds have great difficulty adjusting to superstar salaries. "Fernando Valenzuela now makes $1,000,000 a year," Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda once marveled. "Three years ago, Valenzuela's alarm clock was a rooster!"
["Single women won't have to sleep alone much longer," the Boston Herald reported in 2004. "Women in Japan are wrapping themselves in the arms of a new alternative bed-mate... The Boyfriend Arm Pillow, a realistic version of the real thing, features a squeezable upper body of a man, complete with a button-up shirt and an arm (and a vibrating alarm function to gently wake the sleeper)."]
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Carol Amende,
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