Word: woke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just past midnight, David van Blarigan, 16, woke up in his Oakland, Calif., home to find his parents at his bedside with the two burly strangers they had called to take him away. "Why are you doing this?" the teenager cried out. "Because you're unhappy here," his mother replied. "If you don't cooperate," one of his escorts said, "we'll have to put you in handcuffs." David's first stop was Brightway Adolescent Hospital, a mental facility 700 miles away in St. George, Utah. Although David had no criminal record, was not violent and hadn't been abusing...
Today Baiul says she's an alcoholic. "She calls Jan. 12 her birthday," says Michael Carlisle, her friend and agent. "That's when she woke up and started a new life. She's recognized she has a problem, and is in the process of resolving it." She is not in rehab now, he said, but she's seeing a psychologist. A small group of coaches, skaters and friends has adopted her, Carlisle says, and is overseeing the education of Oksana. "She has demons. But she's a wonderful person, and she's trying to work through...
...more than a decade Phyllis Klingebiel and her son Michael shared a monthly ritual. Each would chip in $20, and Michael would spend it on "Pick 6" lottery tickets in their home state of New Jersey. Late on Oct. 2, Phyllis says, Michael woke his parents with dreamlike news...
While some first-years were avoiding their own parents, one first-year found herself avoiding the parents of another student, her boyfriend's roommate, when she spent the night and woke at noon to the sound of a parent-son reunion in his common room...
...humiliation is not just for women. Tracy, who went on to found a support group called AWARE (Awareness with Anesthesia Research Foundation), tells of one male patient who woke up to a female nurse holding up his penis and laughing about its diminutive size...