21.   It is a secret world of chance meetings between strangers, of quietly arranged hookups, of one-time encounters that can turn passionate or can even blossom into semipermanence.

22.   It was a chance meeting well after midnight on the enormous Russian base on the edge of Grozny.

23.   Later, during a chance meeting at a restaurant, Robin and Fran told a staff attorney they were designing their wedding invitations.

24.   New York is a place of chance meetings and unlikely interconnections -- the morning security guy at the office could become your weekend fishing buddy.

25.   Now, two families connected by a chance desert meeting feel closer than ever to their sons fighting in a war so far away.

26.   Talking with John McHale was a chance meeting.

27.   The chance meeting made Daugherty a Petty fan for life.

28.   The drinks led to a ride to a country church and chance meeting that served her goal.

29.   The memory glasses, for instance, could be made to recognize the difference between a chance meeting and a scheduled meeting and change the type of reminder provided.

30.   The last time I spoke to Lowery was during a chance meeting in Chicago four years ago.