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The Globe says that Saralegui's second husband, musician Marcos Avila, is "an adventurer in love" who "awaken[ed] her to the joys of sex."
It's the kind of instant de-homogenizing sensation you sometimes get in the subway, when you suddenly awaken to the fact that the dozen faces you've been staring vacantly at across the aisle from you belong to a dozen different moral universes--not just in the trivial sense that we all see the world differently, but in the distinctly nontrivial sense that people sitting right next to each other really can have nothing in common--and that you'll never know a single one.
The self-taught Sister is said to be charmingly enthusiastic, and to "awaken an appreciation for a sweeping spectrum of art ...
Some sound so real that they flit past like butterflies or called strikes, only to awaken us in the middle of the night with the realization that they cannot be: halcoid, subuculate, Chief Manciple.
For most of Cop Land , we watch Stallone get bullied and stared down by everyone in the large cast, while we wait for him to awaken from his stupor and start blowing bad guys away--which you know he has to do or he would never have accepted the role.