21.   Small-town dreams are dying.

22.   So Wanda wondered if her singing dream died with her aunt.

23.   Such is the way dreams die in fetid places like Cabrini-Green.

24.   That dream never died, even as McAlmond flirted with retirement.

25.   The American dream has died.

26.   The dream died when, instead of sending her on her way to Hollywood, the man hustled her into his hotel room and molested her.

27.   The downtown dream never died for Stan Durwood, though.

28.   The dream died only briefly, Holyfield claimed, in the hours and days after he lost to Moorer.

29.   The dream dies hard.

30.   The odds of being discovered are long and the discomfort is severe, but dreams die hard.