31.   Four women and three men, all employees who left their families during this holiday week to help make up the skeleton crew keeping Edgewater Technology going.

32.   Gimelstob chose to leave his family in January and move to Palos Verdes, Calif., in order to live and train with his coach, Robert Lansdorp.

33.   Girls left their families to become live-in help for the rich.

34.   He left a family shattered by loss, but still dreaming of peace.

35.   He has no family left in Russia.

36.   He left his family for the game.

37.   He was single and numbered among his friends a dozen men who had left their families as he had.

38.   He would have to leave his family for an indefinite period of time, perhaps forever.

39.   He wanted to be closer to what little family he had left.

40.   His father left the family when he was very young and his mother turned him and his brother over to his grandparents.