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The Incorrigible children hugged the fortune-teller and danced in and out of her countless billowing scarves as they caught the puffs of steam from the awakening locomotive like so many wind-filled sails.

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If the change is unpleasant, it is “a rude awakening.”

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Jocelyn Sanchez had “an awakening” when she turned 30 last year.

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But soon it became clear something larger was happening—a kind of awakening.

Then Faith herself turns up at his door, awakening dormant desire and putting a proposition to him—a new mission overseas, using his writing profession as cover.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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