21.   But a few friends died of a strange new illness.

22.   Buckley is an ex-smoker, having quit after watching a friend die of lung cancer.

23.   But about a year ago, when her best friend died, she found herself in desperate need of a real mission.

24.   But in March, her friend died in a private-plane crash.

25.   But these kids are just as confused by what to do when a friend dies in an accident.

26.   By that time, he had seen at least four younger friends die from AIDS.

27.   Close friends died while in service, and her work, often on the front lines, with poor and elderly refugees was hard but instructive.

28.   Everybody had the same expression, as if a friend had died, or might have died.

29.   Friends died of AIDS.

30.   Friends were dying violently.