41.   The trucks will come this week for the stained glass windows, the statues of saints, even the wheezy old pipe organ.

42.   The trucks come from UPS satellite centers around the city and from depots in New Jersey, Maryland and Massachusetts.

43.   The truck would come only in black.

44.   Then a chartreuse fire truck came barreling over, then another.

45.   Then two pick-up trucks came to the house and we all lay down in the back.

46.   There have been other apparent turning points in this miserable season, and on those occasions, a Mack truck was coming around the corner.

47.   Then a little while later the fire trucks came by.

48.   Then, lying in bed, little Ron hears a truck come through Oakwood in the middle of the night.

49.   They said the truck had come from Kazakhstan and passed undetected through the checkpoint at Gisht Kuprik on the Kazak border before being stopped in Alat.

50.   They spend hours with their women friends hanging around humidors with the kind of commitment most of us reserve for the day the truck comes in at TJ Maxx.