21.   I remembered a story a woman friend told me about how she called a customer five times one day to tell her that her makeup order was ready.

22.   I was reminded of the shopping discrepancy when I recently bumped into a woman friend and we took an afternoon coffee break.

23.   I would say he is a very sensitive man who has had women friends, listens carefuly to women, respects women.

24.   In fact, he credits his wife, who would talk to her women friends on the telephone while McKay shamelessly eavesdropped.

25.   It was a woman friend up in Kansas City, living in an apartment, bored to tears by the midwinter blues.

26.   Nehama Millstein, a chief superintendent in the Tel Aviv police, was on a day off at the restaurant with two women friends.

27.   My friend recalled admiring a married man from afar and telling a woman friend that if he ever left his wife to let her know.

28.   Nina and a woman friend have a frank conversation about sex.

29.   My real-life women friends and relations are full of lively thoughts right now.

30.   My women friends, in particular, were mystified by the shelf of Grizzard books, the clipped columns with the yellow-highlighter lines on the funniest paragraphs.